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1453085 | 2003 | 01 | 01 | Chefs Who Have Only Themselves to Blame |
IMAGINE for a moment the following scene: Sometime tonight, beginning about 6, between 30 and 100 people come to your home. They arrive in a steady stream throughout the evening until midnight or 1 in the morning. They expect dinner. And you will make it. Alone.
No one will help you wash the salad greens, whisk the vinaigrette, dice the vegetables, roast the chicken, reduce the sauce or torch the crème brûlée. Now imagine doing this as many as six days (and nights) a week.
| IMAGINE for a moment the following scene: Sometime tonight, beginning about 6, between 30 and 100 people come to your home. They arrive in a steady stream throughout the evening until midnight or 1 in the morning. They expect dinner. And you will make it. Alone. No one will help you wash the salad greens, whisk the vinaigrette, dice the vegetables, roast the chicken, reduce the sauce or torch the crème brûlée. Now imagine doing this as many as six days (and nights) a week. O.K., you can stop hyperventilating now. This was just an exercise to get you in touch with the world of the solo chef, a rarity in restaurants. Most chefs share cooking responsibilities with a seasoned team of knife-wielding colleagues. Yet there are, around |
1187933 | 2000 | 03 | 30 | Pennsylvania Colleges Weigh Admitting Top 15% at Schools |
The 14 campuses of Pennsylvania's public college system are considering a plan to increase minority enrollment by offering admission to the top 15 percent of every high school graduation class in the state.
The proposal, which is being discussed by a 30-member planning commission that will report to the system's board of governors, closely follows recent admission policies adopted in Texas and Florida that replaced affirmative action plans. In contrast to those plans, the Pennsylvania plan would continue using the existing affirmation action system.
| The 14 campuses of Pennsylvania's public college system are considering a plan to increase minority enrollment by offering admission to the top 15 percent of every high school graduation class in the state. The proposal, which is being discussed by a 30-member planning commission that will report to the system's board of governors, closely follows recent admission policies adopted in Texas and Florida that replaced affirmative action plans. In contrast to those plans, the Pennsylvania plan would continue using the existing affirmation action system. Adoption of the plan in Pennsylvania would mean that students in some urban high schools who would ordinarily not be admitted because their grades were not high enough could qualify because they were in poorly performing schools and did well compared with their classmates. |
1250323 | 2000 | 11 | 26 | Candidates, Debate This: How to Fix Property Taxes |
Your first-half property tax bill is coming due. Do you know where your local politician is?
For nine years, New Jersey politics has been fueled by arguments over taxes. Forget Megan's Law, forget parental notification over abortions for minors, and forget even auto insurance for now. The Florio tax debacle, the Republicans' skilled exploitation of the opening it provided and the muddle since then have left New Jerseyans about where they started, with the highest property taxes of any state with an income tax, which means every place but New Hampshire.
| Your first-half property tax bill is coming due. Do you know where your local politician is? For nine years, New Jersey politics has been fueled by arguments over taxes. Forget Megan's Law, forget parental notification over abortions for minors, and forget even auto insurance for now. The Florio tax debacle, the Republicans' skilled exploitation of the opening it provided and the muddle since then have left New Jerseyans about where they started, with the highest property taxes of any state with an income tax, which means every place but New Hampshire. The elderly on fixed incomes and the young buying first houses and having first babies feel it sharply, but so does everyone in between. Everyone suffers from a system where high local costs (every little borough with |
1823155 | 2007 | 02 | 02 | United States of Florida |
IT takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter, but once again, Florida is pulling it off. From Miami to Pensacola, the cold-weather escapees have been filtering in, completing the midwinter migration to the Northerners' land of dreams -- or at least, the land of polo shirts and khaki shorts. And with more than 50,000 square miles of territory, Florida has plenty of room for all of them -- sun-hungry retirees, peripatetic second-home owners and seasonal settlers -- to spread out.
So why don't they?
| IT takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter, but once again, Florida is pulling it off. From Miami to Pensacola, the cold-weather escapees have been filtering in, completing the midwinter migration to the Northerners' land of dreams -- or at least, the land of polo shirts and khaki shorts. And with more than 50,000 square miles of territory, Florida has plenty of room for all of them -- sun-hungry retirees, peripatetic second-home owners and seasonal settlers -- to spread out. So why don't they? It's not exactly regimentation, and there are plenty of exceptions to be found, but Florida's winter arrivals clearly like to settle in clumps. Even in the sunny South, they seem to want to be among their own -- occupying turf |
1580993 | 2004 | 05 | 11 | Paid Notice: Deaths LA VINE, KENNETH NETTLETON |
La VINE--Kenneth Nettleton of Vero Beach, FL died at his home on May 9, 2004. He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1911, a son of the late Louis and Irene (Nettleton) La Vine. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932 and from Yale Law School in 1935, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal and was elected to the Order of The Coif, the national honorary legal society. Mr. La Vine joined the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York in 1935 where he remained until the outbreak of World War II. During the war, Mr. La Vine served in the U.S. Army 77th Division and ''Ultra'' in Army Intelligence in Washington, DC. On his return from the Army, Mr. La Vine rejoined the law firm and was a partner from 1950 until his retirement in 1981. For many years, Mr. La Vine was a director of Carlisle Corporation, Dover Corporation, The Leach Corporation and a number of other companies. During that time, Mr. La Vine lived in Forest Hills, NY. After his retirement, he and his wife, the former Mary Virginia Dailey, relocated to Florida. In 1998, they moved to Vero Beach, FL, where he was a parishioner of St. John of The Cross. An avid tennis and platform tennis player, he was a longtime member of The West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY. Mr. La Vine was predeceased by his daughter, Carol A. Coogan. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, his son Kenneth N. La Vine Jr. and his wife, Angel, his daughter, Linda Johnson and her husband, John, his son-in-law, James M. Coogan; five grandchildren, and one great grandson. Mr. La Vine will be reposing at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, 1076 Madison Ave. NYC on Wednesday, May 12, visiting hours 2-4 PM and 6-8 PM. A Funeral Mass will becelebrated at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 65 East 89th Street, New York, on May 13 at 10 A.M. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Hudson Valley National Foundation, 21 Scarsdale Road, Yonkers, NY 10707 in memory of his daughter, Carol A. Coogan, or to the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, 107 East 70th St., NY, NY 10021.
| La VINE--Kenneth Nettleton of Vero Beach, FL died at his home on May 9, 2004. He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1911, a son of the late Louis and Irene (Nettleton) La Vine. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932 and from Yale Law School in 1935, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal and was elected to the Order of The Coif, the national honorary legal society. Mr. La Vine joined the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York in 1935 where he remained until the outbreak of World War II. During the war, Mr. La Vine served in the U.S. Army 77th Division and ''Ultra'' in Army Intelligence in Washington, DC. On his return from the Army, Mr. |
1270074 | 2001 | 02 | 11 | Following the Money, but Also the Mind |
IN the histories of economics still to be written, the spring of 1994 will almost certainly be flagged as momentous. That is when an ophthalmologist's son from Main Line Philadelphia -- David Laibson -- received his Ph.D. in economics, qualifying with a thesis about willpower and money that drew as much on psychology and quirky behavior as on standard economics. Harvard quickly hired him, becoming the first university to deliberately recruit an economics professor trained as a behavioral economist.
Behavioral economics had finally arrived: a discipline that for a half-century had built its theories on the rigid assumption that people acted with rational, unemotional self-interest had formally recognized that human beings had another, feisty, side to them.
| IN the histories of economics still to be written, the spring of 1994 will almost certainly be flagged as momentous. That is when an ophthalmologist's son from Main Line Philadelphia -- David Laibson -- received his Ph.D. in economics, qualifying with a thesis about willpower and money that drew as much on psychology and quirky behavior as on standard economics. Harvard quickly hired him, becoming the first university to deliberately recruit an economics professor trained as a behavioral economist. Behavioral economics had finally arrived: a discipline that for a half-century had built its theories on the rigid assumption that people acted with rational, unemotional self-interest had formally recognized that human beings had another, feisty, side to them. Three years later, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed Harvard's lead, |
1356099 | 2002 | 01 | 02 | NEWS SUMMARY |
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Pakistan Leader Orders End to Support for Militants President Pervez Musharraf told his military intelligence agency to cut off backing for Islamic militant groups fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir, senior officials said. They said future support would go only to groups with local roots that are not part of the Islamic holy war movement that has its most notorious expression in Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Groups like Hizbul Mujahedeen, the officials said, would get ''moral and political'' support from the Pakistani government but not military training and weapons.
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Zambians Protest Election More than 1,000 angry opposition party supporters took to the streets and clashed with riot police officers as dozens of protesters stormed the Supreme Court to accuse the Zambian government of rigging the presidential election last week. Judge Peter Chitengi ordered the government not to release the final election results and said he would decide today whether he had the legal authority to delay the inauguration, as opposition parties have demanded, to allow an investigation into complaints of stuffed or stolen ballot boxes and other vote tampering.
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| INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Pakistan Leader Orders End to Support for Militants President Pervez Musharraf told his military intelligence agency to cut off backing for Islamic militant groups fighting in the disputed territory of Kashmir, senior officials said. They said future support would go only to groups with local roots that are not part of the Islamic holy war movement that has its most notorious expression in Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Groups like Hizbul Mujahedeen, the officials said, would get ''moral and political'' support from the Pakistani government but not military training and weapons. A1 Zambians Protest Election More than 1,000 angry opposition party supporters took to the streets and clashed with riot police officers as dozens of protesters stormed the Supreme Court to accuse the Zambian government of |
1482133 | 2003 | 04 | 19 | Turbulence Stalks Further Nigeria Elections |
Far from this Nigerian capital, in a provincial town called Sagbama on the edge of the oil state Bayelsa, the election commission office lies ransacked, with ballot boxes broken and the governor's lodge in embers.
The governing People's Democratic Party blames opposition activists for the destruction last Saturday, while enraged opposition supporters accuse their rivals of trying to fix that day's legislative elections. In any case, few if any ballots ever made it to polling booths, even though the national election commission declared today that the irregularities were isolated.
| Far from this Nigerian capital, in a provincial town called Sagbama on the edge of the oil state Bayelsa, the election commission office lies ransacked, with ballot boxes broken and the governor's lodge in embers. The governing People's Democratic Party blames opposition activists for the destruction last Saturday, while enraged opposition supporters accuse their rivals of trying to fix that day's legislative elections. In any case, few if any ballots ever made it to polling booths, even though the national election commission declared today that the irregularities were isolated. The ruin shows the resentment piling up before another, far more important, round of voting on Saturday -- this time for the presidency and governorships -- as Africa's most populous nation tries to achieve what it has never managed |
1373186 | 2002 | 03 | 05 | TRANSACTIONS |
BASEBALL
National League FLORIDA MARLINS--Signed RHP Brad Penny, RHP Vladimir Nunez, LHP Benito Baez and LHP Armando Almanza to one-year contracts.
Central League FORT WORTH CATS--Signed OF Mel Hall and RHP Jeff Parker. JACKSON SENATORS--Signed RHP Kris Draper, C Gerard McCall and OF Matt Baird. SAN ANGELO COLTS--Traded OF Ray Danzy to Sioux Falls of the Northern League for a player to be named. SPRINGFIELD/OZARK MOUNTAIN DUCKS--Released C Brett Holmberg.
| BASEBALL National League FLORIDA MARLINS--Signed RHP Brad Penny, RHP Vladimir Nunez, LHP Benito Baez and LHP Armando Almanza to one-year contracts. Central League FORT WORTH CATS--Signed OF Mel Hall and RHP Jeff Parker. JACKSON SENATORS--Signed RHP Kris Draper, C Gerard McCall and OF Matt Baird. SAN ANGELO COLTS--Traded OF Ray Danzy to Sioux Falls of the Northern League for a player to be named. SPRINGFIELD/OZARK MOUNTAIN DUCKS--Released C Brett Holmberg. Northern League ALBANY-COLONIE DIAMOND DOGS--Signed RHP Eric LeBlanc and OF Adam Neubart. Traded 1B Jon Hambleton to Richmond of the Frontier League for 1B-OF Aaron Sledd. BERKSHIRE BLACK BEARS--Signed INF Todd Brock. BROCKTON ROX--Signed RHP Cliff Brand. DULUTH-SUPERIOR DUKES--Signed OF David Jefferson, RHP Andy Zwirchitz and RHP Jeremy Book. ELMIRA PIONEERS--Released INF Brian Richardson. Signed INF Hector Pimental. |
1845832 | 2007 | 05 | 08 | Revisiting, and Revising, A Very Familiar Legend |
She was bright and curious, probably between 10 and 14. He was a cocky adventurer, short and hairy, about 28 when they met.
They were Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith. Many details of their lives remain unknown, despite their often controversial branding as a fabulous multicultural couple. Most historians say it was unlikely that they were lovers, although legend has it that she saved him from death at the hands of her people. The two connected near the Jamestown colony of Virginia within a year of its founding in 1607.
| She was bright and curious, probably between 10 and 14. He was a cocky adventurer, short and hairy, about 28 when they met. They were Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith. Many details of their lives remain unknown, despite their often controversial branding as a fabulous multicultural couple. Most historians say it was unlikely that they were lovers, although legend has it that she saved him from death at the hands of her people. The two connected near the Jamestown colony of Virginia within a year of its founding in 1607. Tonight the documentary ''Pocahontas Revealed,'' part of the ''Nova'' science series on PBS, uses science to examine more broadly the lives of both Native Americans and the 17th-century newcomers to their land. The documentary, which relies heavily on |
1802939 | 2006 | 11 | 07 | Lost Boy of Sudan Searching for a Land of Milk and Honey |
What Is the What The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng By Dave Eggers 475 pages. McSweeney's. $26.
As his remarkable 2000 book, ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,'' so flamboyantly illustrated, Dave Eggers is a writer torn between two warring proclivities: a taste for the latest postmodern, self-conscious literary games and an ability to write genuinely moving, heartfelt narratives about real people and their very real lives.
| What Is the What The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng By Dave Eggers 475 pages. McSweeney's. $26. As his remarkable 2000 book, ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,'' so flamboyantly illustrated, Dave Eggers is a writer torn between two warring proclivities: a taste for the latest postmodern, self-conscious literary games and an ability to write genuinely moving, heartfelt narratives about real people and their very real lives. In ''Staggering Genius,'' the tension between those two impulses enabled Mr. Eggers to recount the story of his own life -- how his mother and father died within weeks of each other, and how he suddenly became a surrogate parent to his 8-year-old brother -- with stunning tenderness and passion. Part emotional defense, part canny narrative strategy, the high-tech literary devices |
1289706 | 2001 | 05 | 01 | Departing Federal Prosecutor Reflects on Record, and Race |
There are some topics, like work, that Stephen C. Robinson, the departing United States attorney in Connecticut, enjoys discussing. And there are others, like race, that he would just as soon leave out of a public conversation.
When he snapped his briefcase shut and left his corner office on the 23rd floor of the Connecticut Financial Center today, Mr. Robinson, known as a by-the-numbers prosecutor, skilled litigator and genuinely nice guy, closed out a federal law enforcement career that he speaks about with obvious enthusiasm, which began in the 1980's in New York, when he was an assistant United States attorney under Rudolph W. Giuliani.
| There are some topics, like work, that Stephen C. Robinson, the departing United States attorney in Connecticut, enjoys discussing. And there are others, like race, that he would just as soon leave out of a public conversation. When he snapped his briefcase shut and left his corner office on the 23rd floor of the Connecticut Financial Center today, Mr. Robinson, known as a by-the-numbers prosecutor, skilled litigator and genuinely nice guy, closed out a federal law enforcement career that he speaks about with obvious enthusiasm, which began in the 1980's in New York, when he was an assistant United States attorney under Rudolph W. Giuliani. He went on to become the deputy general counsel of the F.B.I under Director Louis Freeh, then returned to private practice before President |
1364738 | 2002 | 02 | 03 | Sheldon Allman, 77, the Voice Of a Singing Mr. Ed on Television |
Sheldon Allman, a songwriter and actor who was the singing voice of Mr. Ed and composed the theme songs to ''George of the Jungle'' and other television shows, died on Jan. 22 at his home in Culver City, Calif. He was 77.
The cause was heart failure, his family said.
| Sheldon Allman, a songwriter and actor who was the singing voice of Mr. Ed and composed the theme songs to ''George of the Jungle'' and other television shows, died on Jan. 22 at his home in Culver City, Calif. He was 77. The cause was heart failure, his family said. In ''Mr. Ed,'' the popular sitcom about Wilbur Post's talking horse, the voice of the title character was provided by Allan Lane. But whenever Mr. Ed sang, it was with the voice of Mr. Allman, who also wrote all of his own songs, like ''The Pretty Little Filly With the Pony Tail'' and ''The Empty Feed Bag Blues.'' Mr. Allman also wrote the theme music for ''Let's Make a Deal'' and for the cartoons ''George of the Jungle,'' |
1267561 | 2001 | 02 | 01 | Paid Notice: Deaths MAYMUDES, VICTOR THE ''VILLAGE'' |
MAYMUDES-Victor the ''Village''. Philosopher who as mentor, manager and friend guided Bob Dylan down the road from obscurity to icon in the early sixties, died peacefully on January 26th 2001 in UCLA Hospital, Santa Monica, California. On that journey he was protected and comforted by the presence and courage of his children Aerie Victoria and Jacob. He was sixty-five. Victor was the son of the respected liberal left-wing Los Angeles activists, Golda and Abraham Maymudes and the brother of August and Zicel; growing up the music and rhetoric of humanism, anti-fascism and civil rights was the food on their table. Late-sixties Victor stepped off the music stage to homestead in Northern New Mexico, his hands turned to chopping wood and carpentry, his heart to loving his family. 1986 until 1996 he returned to Dylan's side as a personal manager. The last years of his life were spent traveling and writing his memoirs. The product of that effort, ''The Joker and the Thief'' was scheduled for publication by Saint Martins Press in 2002. Above all, Victor appreciated the value of music, the poetry in a well-turned phrase. ''Song is the ultimate repository of human civilization,'' he maintained, ''it's a resting place for one heart and translates the soul of culture for all.''
| MAYMUDES-Victor the ''Village''. Philosopher who as mentor, manager and friend guided Bob Dylan down the road from obscurity to icon in the early sixties, died peacefully on January 26th 2001 in UCLA Hospital, Santa Monica, California. On that journey he was protected and comforted by the presence and courage of his children Aerie Victoria and Jacob. He was sixty-five. Victor was the son of the respected liberal left-wing Los Angeles activists, Golda and Abraham Maymudes and the brother of August and Zicel; growing up the music and rhetoric of humanism, anti-fascism and civil rights was the food on their table. Late-sixties Victor stepped off the music stage to homestead in Northern New Mexico, his hands turned to chopping wood and carpentry, his heart to loving his family. 1986 |
1806821 | 2006 | 11 | 23 | Where Even Construction Is an Opportunity for Art |
ALONG 230 feet of Broadway, thanks to Lincoln Center and its designers, there is evidence that a sidewalk construction shed does not have to be a dark, claustrophobic, obnoxious, constricting pedestrian chute.
Sidewalk sheds, also known as sidewalk scaffolding or sidewalk bridges, seem to have taken over the city, turning long stretches of streetscape into Erector Set tunnels.
| ALONG 230 feet of Broadway, thanks to Lincoln Center and its designers, there is evidence that a sidewalk construction shed does not have to be a dark, claustrophobic, obnoxious, constricting pedestrian chute. Sidewalk sheds, also known as sidewalk scaffolding or sidewalk bridges, seem to have taken over the city, turning long stretches of streetscape into Erector Set tunnels. They do perform the vital service of keeping falling debris off the heads of passers-by. But all too often, they are low and poorly lighted. They block the sky. They strangle foot traffic. And many carry advertising, which is frequently illegal but may also be too tempting a revenue source for building owners to pass up. That, in turn, could explain why some sheds seem to stay up longer than |
1719038 | 2005 | 11 | 20 | Katherine McKay, Alexander Navarro |
Katherine McKay, the daughter of Judy Thompson McKay and Richard James McKay of Teaneck, N.J., was married on Tuesday to Alexander Szabad Navarro, the son of Herbert Jose Navarro of Brooklyn and the late Amalia Szabad Navarro. Judge Margarita López Torres officiated in her chambers at Kings County Criminal Courthouse in Brooklyn.
On Nov. 13, the couple exchanged vows before family and friends at the Metropolitan Building, an event space in Long Island City, Queens.
| Katherine McKay, the daughter of Judy Thompson McKay and Richard James McKay of Teaneck, N.J., was married on Tuesday to Alexander Szabad Navarro, the son of Herbert Jose Navarro of Brooklyn and the late Amalia Szabad Navarro. Judge Margarita López Torres officiated in her chambers at Kings County Criminal Courthouse in Brooklyn. On Nov. 13, the couple exchanged vows before family and friends at the Metropolitan Building, an event space in Long Island City, Queens. The bride, 31, is an associate with Sachs Consulting, a health care consulting firm in Manhattan. She graduated from Brown and is a candidate for a master's degree in public health from Columbia. Her father retired as the president and founder of Exec Comm, a communications consulting firm in Manhattan. Her mother is |
1180012 | 2000 | 02 | 28 | Handsome, Narcissistic And Tangled |
In the new romantic comedy ''Grapevine,'' a group of thirtyish, preternaturally good-looking men and women live in Miami, gaze directly into the camera and explain the tangled, ever-changing lines of love and friendship that connect them. What they don't say is: We are so self-absorbed we make the women of ''Sex in the City'' look like a band of Mother Teresas.
There's something to be said for self-absorption, of course; if a character doesn't like himself, who will? But it's hard to build a series around relentless navel gazing and a narrative gimmick that creates more talk than action.
| In the new romantic comedy ''Grapevine,'' a group of thirtyish, preternaturally good-looking men and women live in Miami, gaze directly into the camera and explain the tangled, ever-changing lines of love and friendship that connect them. What they don't say is: We are so self-absorbed we make the women of ''Sex in the City'' look like a band of Mother Teresas. There's something to be said for self-absorption, of course; if a character doesn't like himself, who will? But it's hard to build a series around relentless navel gazing and a narrative gimmick that creates more talk than action. The show's creator, writer and director, David Frankel, has given himself a tricky high-wire act. That act works with effortless charm whenever Steven Eckholdt is on screen as the |
1168584 | 2000 | 01 | 14 | Man Lurks at Subway Stops to Rob Women |
A man who haunts deserted subway platforms in Manhattan has robbed 17 women over the last eight months, the police said yesterday.
The man waits at the end of the platform and demands the victim's purse, said Detective Vincent Gravelli, a police spokesman. If she refuses, he uses force, the detective said. The man sometimes carries a knife and has injured two women, he added.
| A man who haunts deserted subway platforms in Manhattan has robbed 17 women over the last eight months, the police said yesterday. The man waits at the end of the platform and demands the victim's purse, said Detective Vincent Gravelli, a police spokesman. If she refuses, he uses force, the detective said. The man sometimes carries a knife and has injured two women, he added. The robber then runs into the subway tunnel, Detective Gravelli said. He is described as black, around 30 years old, 5-feet-9 to 6-feet tall, slim and clean-shaven, with a medium complexion and short hair. The robber works at all times of day, does not seem to have a favorite subway line and has attacked women of all ages at 14 stations from Wall |
1496562 | 2003 | 06 | 13 | Brodeur Is Named League's Top Goalie |
In a 10-year career that has included three Stanley Cup championships, it is difficult to call a star goalie overlooked. But that has been the perception of Martin Brodeur of the Devils, who, until tonight, had not won a major individual award since the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1994.
Individual honor averted Brodeur again Monday night, when the Devils defeated Anaheim in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals but the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs went to Jean-Sébastien Giguère, the goalie for the Mighty Ducks.
| In a 10-year career that has included three Stanley Cup championships, it is difficult to call a star goalie overlooked. But that has been the perception of Martin Brodeur of the Devils, who, until tonight, had not won a major individual award since the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1994. Individual honor averted Brodeur again Monday night, when the Devils defeated Anaheim in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals but the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player in the playoffs went to Jean-Sébastien Giguère, the goalie for the Mighty Ducks. But Brodeur took a few bows at the National Hockey League awards ceremony tonight. Along with being named to the league's All-Star first team for the first time, Brodeur won the Vézina Trophy |
1602791 | 2004 | 08 | 09 | Mistrusting the Drug Managers |
New York has joined a host of other states that are suing or investigating pharmacy benefit managers, companies that purchase drugs for millions of patients. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a suit last week against Express Scripts, the nation's third-largest pharmacy benefit manager, accusing it of pocketing drug savings that it was supposed to pass on to a state insurance program for active and retired government employees. The accusations are strongly denied by Express Scripts. However that legal battle turns out, the growing effort to force pharmacy benefit managers to make their operations more transparent is a welcome development. In the absence of government regulation of drug prices, the nation is relying heavily on such companies to negotiate the lowest possible prices from the pharmaceutical companies.
In theory, pharmacy benefit managers use their bulk purchasing power to obtain big discounts from the manufacturers and pharmacy chains. Mr. Spitzer's suit contends that Express Scripts disguised millions of dollars in manufacturer rebates as special fees, inflated the costs of the generic drugs it purchased and tricked doctors into switching their patients' prescriptions to drugs whose manufacturers paid Express Scripts for the favor. Mr. Spitzer also says that Express Scripts would offer pharmacies a higher-than-warranted price for drugs whose entire cost could be passed on to the state in exchange for a lower-than-warranted price on drugs where Express Scripts had guaranteed a certain price and could pocket any savings if it bought the drugs for less.
| New York has joined a host of other states that are suing or investigating pharmacy benefit managers, companies that purchase drugs for millions of patients. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a suit last week against Express Scripts, the nation's third-largest pharmacy benefit manager, accusing it of pocketing drug savings that it was supposed to pass on to a state insurance program for active and retired government employees. The accusations are strongly denied by Express Scripts. However that legal battle turns out, the growing effort to force pharmacy benefit managers to make their operations more transparent is a welcome development. In the absence of government regulation of drug prices, the nation is relying heavily on such companies to negotiate the lowest possible prices from the pharmaceutical companies. In theory, |
1180471 | 2000 | 03 | 01 | Guilty Verdicts in Trial Implicating Camden Mayor |
Two Camden men were convicted on federal drug charges yesterday after a trial in which witnesses accused Mayor Milton Milan of buying and selling cocaine, the United States Attorney's office said.
It was the second time in two months that prosecutors won convictions or a plea in cases involving allegations that Mr. Milan engaged in crimes, although the mayor has not been charged. On Jan. 27, Camden's former municipal prosecutor, Joseph S. Caruso, admitted conspiring with Mr. Milan in 1997 to solicit a $5,000 campaign contribution from the local public defender. The mayor has denied wrongdoing in both cases.
| Two Camden men were convicted on federal drug charges yesterday after a trial in which witnesses accused Mayor Milton Milan of buying and selling cocaine, the United States Attorney's office said. It was the second time in two months that prosecutors won convictions or a plea in cases involving allegations that Mr. Milan engaged in crimes, although the mayor has not been charged. On Jan. 27, Camden's former municipal prosecutor, Joseph S. Caruso, admitted conspiring with Mr. Milan in 1997 to solicit a $5,000 campaign contribution from the local public defender. The mayor has denied wrongdoing in both cases. Yesterday, Jose Rivera, 41, and Luis Figueroa, 35, were convicted of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, said Kevin Smith, an assistant United States attorney. Mr. Smith |
1301888 | 2001 | 06 | 15 | Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Taxi Group Seeks Surcharge |
A cabdrivers organization, worried about the rising cost of gasoline, wants to add a 50-cent fuel surcharge to fares. The group, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said that instead of netting an average $75 per 12-hour day, drivers were going home with $60. ''If airlines and landlords are able to raise prices because of increased costs, why not working-class taxi drivers?'' said Bhairavi Desai, their spokeswoman. But the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said it would need detailed data before it would consider the request.
Hope Reeves (NYT)
| A cabdrivers organization, worried about the rising cost of gasoline, wants to add a 50-cent fuel surcharge to fares. The group, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said that instead of netting an average $75 per 12-hour day, drivers were going home with $60. ''If airlines and landlords are able to raise prices because of increased costs, why not working-class taxi drivers?'' said Bhairavi Desai, their spokeswoman. But the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said it would need detailed data before it would consider the request. Hope Reeves (NYT) Correction: June 19, 2001, Tuesday A report in the Metro Briefing column on Friday about a call by a cabdriver organization, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, for a fuel surcharge on fares misspelled the given name of its |
1252548 | 2000 | 12 | 04 | Life After Parole: The Sad Cycle |
To the Editor:
''Often, Parole Is One Stop on the Way Back to Prison'' (front page, Nov. 29) is a wake-up call for those who feel that the best way to deal with people who commit crimes is to put them outside our field of vision. It's time to look again.
Here they are: the 600,000 inmates who will be released from state and federal prisons this year, people who have been put into a black hole and shown no way out. The criminal justice system has, in effect, prepared them to turn on society, rather than return to it. Denying rehabilitation to prisoners is shortsighted and vengeful. It fails to recognize that they will eventually return.
| To the Editor: ''Often, Parole Is One Stop on the Way Back to Prison'' (front page, Nov. 29) is a wake-up call for those who feel that the best way to deal with people who commit crimes is to put them outside our field of vision. It's time to look again. Here they are: the 600,000 inmates who will be released from state and federal prisons this year, people who have been put into a black hole and shown no way out. The criminal justice system has, in effect, prepared them to turn on society, rather than return to it. Denying rehabilitation to prisoners is shortsighted and vengeful. It fails to recognize that they will eventually return. Since the majority of inmates are disadvantaged, seriously addicted or mentally |
1828869 | 2007 | 02 | 25 | Laugh Lines |
Jay Leno
Senator Barack Obama was in Los Angeles last night for a huge campaign fund-raiser. That shows you what a great country this is -- when an African-American with a Kansas mother and Kenyan father who spent time growing up in Indonesia can run for president in a state where the Spanish speaking people have just elected an Austrian governor. That's America.
David Letterman
Oh, by God, how about this? Al Qaeda released seven new videotapes simultaneously. Ooh, that's chilling, isn't it? Seven new videotapes simultaneously, and listen to this: you buy the whole collection, you get the blooper reel free.
| Jay Leno Senator Barack Obama was in Los Angeles last night for a huge campaign fund-raiser. That shows you what a great country this is -- when an African-American with a Kansas mother and Kenyan father who spent time growing up in Indonesia can run for president in a state where the Spanish speaking people have just elected an Austrian governor. That's America. David Letterman Oh, by God, how about this? Al Qaeda released seven new videotapes simultaneously. Ooh, that's chilling, isn't it? Seven new videotapes simultaneously, and listen to this: you buy the whole collection, you get the blooper reel free. How many of you folks are excited about the Academy Awards on Sunday? As you know, it's a long show and, personally, I hate to miss |
1740237 | 2006 | 02 | 17 | The Listings: Feb. 17 - Feb. 23; JOE BRADLEY: 'KURGAN WAVES' |
In art, pretending to be dumber, more juvenile or less rational than you are usually serves an advanced sophistication. It certainly does in the surprisingly sweet and mysteriously resonant exhibition by Joe Bradley, a young New York-based painter having his third solo show. Mr. Bradley's multipanel paintings consist of flimsy, store-bought canvases brusquely painted single colors and arranged to create the much simplified images of armless, big-shouldered figures resembling primitive video game characters. Standing almost nine feet, with their legs abutting the floor, these ''big blocky guys,'' as the sculptor Dike Blair calls them in an essay written for the exhibition, seem to have gathered for some kind of tribal ceremony. A sky-blue canvas called ''Mirror,'' lying on the stone floor in the center of the gallery, glows like a reflecting pool; a large, squarish canvas on the wall, painted all brown, evokes the earth (above from left ''Trans,'' ''Mirror'' and ''Machine Hash''). (That Kurgan is the name of an evil, immortal warrior in the cult movie ''Highlander'' may or may not be relevant.) To use a Minimalist vocabulary for such unabashedly anthropomorphic purposes is somehow comical. Joel Shapiro's blocky, puppetlike figures are similarly funny. Mr. Bradley's show might be a joke about what the critic Michael Fried saw as the essentially theatrical nature of Minimalist art. But it also vividly demonstrates how we may experience even the most abstract artworks as animated by life-like or supernatural energies. We may not be as sophisticated as we think. (Canada, 55 Chrystie Street, between Hester and Canal Streets, Lower East Side, (212) 925-4631, through March 4.)
KEN JOHNSON
| In art, pretending to be dumber, more juvenile or less rational than you are usually serves an advanced sophistication. It certainly does in the surprisingly sweet and mysteriously resonant exhibition by Joe Bradley, a young New York-based painter having his third solo show. Mr. Bradley's multipanel paintings consist of flimsy, store-bought canvases brusquely painted single colors and arranged to create the much simplified images of armless, big-shouldered figures resembling primitive video game characters. Standing almost nine feet, with their legs abutting the floor, these ''big blocky guys,'' as the sculptor Dike Blair calls them in an essay written for the exhibition, seem to have gathered for some kind of tribal ceremony. A sky-blue canvas called ''Mirror,'' lying on the stone floor in the center of the gallery, glows |
1362160 | 2002 | 01 | 25 | Indictment of a Brooklyn Judge Provides Details of Seemingly Routine Corruption |
Two men were strolling near the courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn at lunchtime on June 11.
''$115,000 in cash,'' said one, who prosecutors said happened to be a State Supreme Court justice. ''Take it or leave it.''
| Two men were strolling near the courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn at lunchtime on June 11. ''$115,000 in cash,'' said one, who prosecutors said happened to be a State Supreme Court justice. ''Take it or leave it.'' The other was a lawyer with a big case and a proposed settlement that, if approved by the judge, could bring a fat attorney's fee of $1.6 million. ''All right,'' the lawyer said. ''Sign the order.'' That encounter, described by a witness, is how a Brooklyn judge named Victor I. Barron got himself into the biggest judicial corruption case in New York in years, according to the Brooklyn District attorney, Charles J. Hynes. Yesterday, announcing the indictment of Justice Barron on charges of receiving a bribe, Mr. Hynes for the first time |
1600330 | 2004 | 07 | 30 | Geneva Talks Move Toward Farm Pact |
Working into the early hours of Thursday, five crucial players, including the United States and the European Union, reached an informal agreement on agriculture that has put global trade talks back on track, although behind schedule.
Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director general of the World Trade Organization, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying he welcomed the incipient agreement on agriculture, which he said gives momentum to the talks.
| Working into the early hours of Thursday, five crucial players, including the United States and the European Union, reached an informal agreement on agriculture that has put global trade talks back on track, although behind schedule. Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director general of the World Trade Organization, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying he welcomed the incipient agreement on agriculture, which he said gives momentum to the talks. With less than two days remaining, delegates and officials said that the United States in particular had made significant compromises on Wednesday night, inspiring optimism that the talks would lead to an agreement and advance the Doha round of trade for the developing nations. ''I think it looks good,'' said Arancha González, spokeswoman for Pascal Lamy, the top trade official for |
1506803 | 2003 | 07 | 24 | The Supreme Court finds the 'mushball middle' on affirmative action. |
''WHEN we see a complicated, seemingly intractable problem,'' the comedian Al Franken once remarked about affirmative action, ''we have the only really genuine, authentic human reaction you can have: we're confused.''
Supreme Court justices do not have the same luxury.
| ''WHEN we see a complicated, seemingly intractable problem,'' the comedian Al Franken once remarked about affirmative action, ''we have the only really genuine, authentic human reaction you can have: we're confused.'' Supreme Court justices do not have the same luxury. The justices were forced to take sides last month in the landmark cases involving admissions practices at the University of Michigan. Their rulings will likely satisfy Mr. Franken's quest to find the ''mushball middle'' when it comes to affirmative action. By a 5-4 margin, the court permitted the ''narrowly tailored'' use of race-conscious admissions policies used by the university's law school. The justices expressly prohibited the use of numerical quotas but ruled that race may be considered along with other factors on an individual basis if ''serious, good |
1683634 | 2005 | 06 | 28 | Paid Notice: Deaths HENDLER, ETHEL B. |
HENDLER--Ethel B. Ethel loved people, life and most of all her family. She was married 64 years to her devoted husband, Hy, who passed away November 2004. She is survived by her brother, Seymour, sons, Fred and Donald, daughters-in-law Nancy and Adrienne, grandchildren, Ian and his wife Debra, Noah and his wife Nancy, Sarah, Kimberly, Clinton and three great grandchildren, Natasha, Isaac and Julian who will carry on her legacy. Her many friends admired her beauty, sense of humor and zest for life. She loved travelling, entertaining, bridge and golf. Ethel was a past member of Cold Spring Country Club, NY and Broken Sound, FL. She served for many years as a volunteer for the Florence Fuller Thrift Shop. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 10:30 am at Gutterman Warheit Memorial Chapel in Boca Raton, FL. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Boca Raton Hospital in honor of her caring physician Dr. Evan Goldstein. Thank you, Donald J. Hendler.
| HENDLER--Ethel B. Ethel loved people, life and most of all her family. She was married 64 years to her devoted husband, Hy, who passed away November 2004. She is survived by her brother, Seymour, sons, Fred and Donald, daughters-in-law Nancy and Adrienne, grandchildren, Ian and his wife Debra, Noah and his wife Nancy, Sarah, Kimberly, Clinton and three great grandchildren, Natasha, Isaac and Julian who will carry on her legacy. Her many friends admired her beauty, sense of humor and zest for life. She loved travelling, entertaining, bridge and golf. Ethel was a past member of Cold Spring Country Club, NY and Broken Sound, FL. She served for many years as a volunteer for the Florence Fuller Thrift Shop. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
1165099 | 2000 | 01 | 01 | BUSINESS DIGEST |
Russian Stocks Leap After Yeltsin Steps Aside Boris N. Yeltsin's surprise resignation drove Russian stock prices up sharply, reflecting optimism that the acting president, Vladimir V. Putin, will revive stalled economic reforms. The Russian Trading System stock index rose 18 percent, its biggest one-day increase since July 14, 1998.
| Russian Stocks Leap After Yeltsin Steps Aside Boris N. Yeltsin's surprise resignation drove Russian stock prices up sharply, reflecting optimism that the acting president, Vladimir V. Putin, will revive stalled economic reforms. The Russian Trading System stock index rose 18 percent, its biggest one-day increase since July 14, 1998. Russian stocks traded in the United States rallied as well, as did the Templeton Russia Fund, a mutual fund. [Page A19.] Bond Prices Close Lower Bond prices ended the year lower, reversing a two-day gain that analysts labeled an aberration from the bond market's yearlong slump. The price of the benchmark 30-year bond fell 24/32, to 95 12/32. The bond's yield rose to 6.48 percent from 6.42 percent. [C5.] Leading Tax Lawyer Named in Fraud A Tax Court judge |
1798344 | 2006 | 10 | 20 | Girl Was Not Molested by Neighbor Her Angry Father Killed, Police Say |
The police in Fairfield said on Thursday that they had concluded that a 2-year-old girl had not been molested by a next-door neighbor who they say was stabbed to death by her father after he was told she had been abused.
The father, Jonathon Edington, 29, a Fairfield patent lawyer, broke into the home of his neighbor, Barry James, on Aug. 28 and repeatedly stabbed him, just minutes after his wife told him that Mr. James had molested their daughter, according to the police.
| The police in Fairfield said on Thursday that they had concluded that a 2-year-old girl had not been molested by a next-door neighbor who they say was stabbed to death by her father after he was told she had been abused. The father, Jonathon Edington, 29, a Fairfield patent lawyer, broke into the home of his neighbor, Barry James, on Aug. 28 and repeatedly stabbed him, just minutes after his wife told him that Mr. James had molested their daughter, according to the police. But on Thursday, police Capt. Gary MacNamara said: ''We are confident in our investigation that Mr. Edington did in fact kill Mr. James. We're confident that Mr. James did not molest the Edingtons' daughter. We've concluded that no molestation occurred.'' He declined to specify |
1753703 | 2006 | 04 | 11 | Europe Bars Its Doors to Belarus President and 30 Officials |
The European Union on Monday imposed travel restrictions on President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus and 30 more of the country's officials, blocking their entrance to much of Europe as punishment for election tampering and violent crackdowns on dissent in the former Soviet state.
The restrictions, widely expected after a rigged presidential election and police violence against antigovernment demonstrators in Belarus last month, are effective immediately.
| The European Union on Monday imposed travel restrictions on President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus and 30 more of the country's officials, blocking their entrance to much of Europe as punishment for election tampering and violent crackdowns on dissent in the former Soviet state. The restrictions, widely expected after a rigged presidential election and police violence against antigovernment demonstrators in Belarus last month, are effective immediately. The European Union's statement cited not only the recent events in Belarus, including the election on March 19 and beatings and detentions of opposition members and foreigners, but also the disappearances in 1999 and 2000 of four opposition figures, whom the state is suspected of having killed. The Europeans also reiterated their support for Belarus's nascent opposition, some members of which have |
1675962 | 2005 | 05 | 29 | Charlotte, Grace, Janet and Caroline Come Home |
While I appreciate the coverage The New York Times Magazine devoted to the exploitation of children in Uganda's civil war, I would like to clarify a few aspects of Melanie Thernstrom's description of our work at World Vision (May 8). In her article, she writes about our rehabilitation center for former child rebels in Gulu, northern Uganda, World Vision's Children of War Rehabilitation Center. But she does not mention that World Vision is a global relief and development organization with programs that help address poverty and injustice in nearly 100 countries. The Children of War Rehabilitation Center is only one such program.
Your article also states that the Ugandan government ''houses former rebels'' at the center. While we do sometimes coordinate with Ugandan Army officials to bring rescued children into the center, the government does not ''house'' them there. World Vision receives no money from the Ugandan government or the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, and operates as an independent nongovernmental organization. Should either warring party believe otherwise, World Vision's staff could be in jeopardy.
Geoffrey Denye Kalebbo East Africa Communications Director World Vision Kampala, Uganda
| While I appreciate the coverage The New York Times Magazine devoted to the exploitation of children in Uganda's civil war, I would like to clarify a few aspects of Melanie Thernstrom's description of our work at World Vision (May 8). In her article, she writes about our rehabilitation center for former child rebels in Gulu, northern Uganda, World Vision's Children of War Rehabilitation Center. But she does not mention that World Vision is a global relief and development organization with programs that help address poverty and injustice in nearly 100 countries. The Children of War Rehabilitation Center is only one such program. Your article also states that the Ugandan government ''houses former rebels'' at the center. While we do sometimes coordinate with Ugandan Army officials to bring rescued |
1718228 | 2005 | 11 | 17 | Blinding Justice |
In recent years, DNA testing has shown that innocent people can be convicted of serious crimes, and even end up on death row. The main legal mechanism for saving wrongly convicted prisoners from execution, and for challenging other wrongful convictions, is the writ of habeas corpus. Although habeas traces to Magna Carta and is enshrined in the Constitution, Congress may be about to scale it back drastically. The proposed changes would make the criminal justice system less fair and far more likely to convict the innocent.
Criminal prosecutions do not always work the way they should. Prosecutors may improperly reject prospective jurors on the basis of race. Evidence tying a defendant to a crime is sometimes trumped up, while evidence that casts doubt on a defendant's guilt is sometimes hidden. Habeas corpus allows state prisoners to go into federal court and raise constitutional objections to their convictions. Often they prevail. A few months ago, the Supreme Court overturned a capital conviction in Texas when it found that the prosecutor had kept blacks off the jury.
| In recent years, DNA testing has shown that innocent people can be convicted of serious crimes, and even end up on death row. The main legal mechanism for saving wrongly convicted prisoners from execution, and for challenging other wrongful convictions, is the writ of habeas corpus. Although habeas traces to Magna Carta and is enshrined in the Constitution, Congress may be about to scale it back drastically. The proposed changes would make the criminal justice system less fair and far more likely to convict the innocent. Criminal prosecutions do not always work the way they should. Prosecutors may improperly reject prospective jurors on the basis of race. Evidence tying a defendant to a crime is sometimes trumped up, while evidence that casts doubt on a defendant's guilt is |
1633074 | 2004 | 12 | 08 | Iraq Prisoner Abuse Reported After Abu Ghraib Scandal |
Two Defense Department intelligence officials reported observing brutal treatment of Iraqi insurgents captured in Baghdad last June, several weeks after disclosures of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison created a worldwide uproar, according to a memorandum disclosed Tuesday.
The memorandum, written by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to a senior Pentagon official, said that when the two members of his agency objected to the treatment, they were threatened and told to keep quiet by other military interrogators.
| Two Defense Department intelligence officials reported observing brutal treatment of Iraqi insurgents captured in Baghdad last June, several weeks after disclosures of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison created a worldwide uproar, according to a memorandum disclosed Tuesday. The memorandum, written by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to a senior Pentagon official, said that when the two members of his agency objected to the treatment, they were threatened and told to keep quiet by other military interrogators. The memorandum said the Defense Intelligence Agency officials had seen prisoners being brought in to a detention center with burn marks on their backs and complaining about sore kidneys. The document was disclosed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained it as part of a cache of papers from |
1330373 | 2001 | 10 | 03 | Nortel Will Cut Work Force by 20,000 |
Nortel Networks of Canada said yesterday that it was cutting 10,000 jobs and reducing its work force by an additional 10,000 jobs through the sale of businesses, leaving the company with fewer than half the employees it had at the beginning of the year.
Nortel, the maker of communications equipment, had already announced 30,000 job cuts since problems in the industry began to worsen earlier this year. Nortel, which is based in Brampton, Ontario, began the year with 94,500 employees and expects to have 45,000 after the cuts.
| Nortel Networks of Canada said yesterday that it was cutting 10,000 jobs and reducing its work force by an additional 10,000 jobs through the sale of businesses, leaving the company with fewer than half the employees it had at the beginning of the year. Nortel, the maker of communications equipment, had already announced 30,000 job cuts since problems in the industry began to worsen earlier this year. Nortel, which is based in Brampton, Ontario, began the year with 94,500 employees and expects to have 45,000 after the cuts. In addition to the job cuts, Nortel's board said yesterday that it would replace John A. Roth, who had announced his intention last April to retire as chief executive, with a company insider, Frank A. Dunn, the chief financial officer. |
1436846 | 2002 | 11 | 01 | Inaugural Exhibition |
Carlton Rochell 41 East 57th Street, Manhattan Continuing
The arrival of a new, open-to-the-public gallery devoted to Indian and Southeast Asian art is an event for the city; such showcases are few and far between. This one has been established by Carlton Rochell, formerly of the Asian department at Sotheby's. Jeanne Callanan, also a Sotheby's veteran, is its director.
| Carlton Rochell 41 East 57th Street, Manhattan Continuing The arrival of a new, open-to-the-public gallery devoted to Indian and Southeast Asian art is an event for the city; such showcases are few and far between. This one has been established by Carlton Rochell, formerly of the Asian department at Sotheby's. Jeanne Callanan, also a Sotheby's veteran, is its director. The two dozen objects in the inaugural display don't constitute an exhibition in any thematic sense; in fact, they will be leaving the gallery as they are sold, to be replaced with fresh stock. But the pieces are individually so beautiful that it would be a shame not to see them before they take off for who knows where. Although Himalayan and Cambodian bronzes are among the most exquisite |
1232016 | 2000 | 09 | 20 | Paid Notice: Deaths WOODS, PATRICIA FAY |
WOODS-Patricia Fay, on September 6, 2000 in San Francisco, CA of cancer after a short illness. She was the beloved mother of Wendy Luers, Ward, Cynthia and Susan Woods, loving grandmother of Kate and Alexandra Woods, Ramsay and Connor Turnbull, Max and Tatia Bauer & great-grandmother to Rowan and India, loved by her sons-in-law William Luers, Myron Sugarman and Johannes Bauer and her daughter-in-law Priscilla Woods. She will be remembered fondly by her caregivers: Rosa Sandoval, Annie Vega, Marcenita Villegas and Rosemary Massey. Patsy, a third generation San Franciscan, was generous and important in the lives of her many nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends of all generations whom she welcomed with ease and style in the many places she made her home. She will be sorely missed by all whose lives she brightened with her happy spirit and contagious optimism and energy. And above all, we will all remember her humor, kindness and wonderful sparkling smile. The family suggests contributions to St. Anthony's Foundation, 121 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Ca 94102 or Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth, 100 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118. A memorial service will be held on October 20th at 3 PM at St. Dominic's Church, 2390 Bush Street, San Francisco followed by a reception.
| WOODS-Patricia Fay, on September 6, 2000 in San Francisco, CA of cancer after a short illness. She was the beloved mother of Wendy Luers, Ward, Cynthia and Susan Woods, loving grandmother of Kate and Alexandra Woods, Ramsay and Connor Turnbull, Max and Tatia Bauer & great-grandmother to Rowan and India, loved by her sons-in-law William Luers, Myron Sugarman and Johannes Bauer and her daughter-in-law Priscilla Woods. She will be remembered fondly by her caregivers: Rosa Sandoval, Annie Vega, Marcenita Villegas and Rosemary Massey. Patsy, a third generation San Franciscan, was generous and important in the lives of her many nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends of all generations whom she welcomed with ease and style in the many places she made her home. She will be sorely missed |
1632012 | 2004 | 12 | 04 | School Windfall's Challenge: Spending It Well |
Like a winner of Mega Millions or the beneficiary of a large inheritance, the New York City public schools are contemplating a windfall.
Assuming that New York State ultimately complies with the recommendations released this week by a court-appointed panel, the city schools stand to get $5.6 billion a year in additional operating money, phased in over four years, and $9.2 billion in new school buildings, classrooms, libraries and other capital improvements.
| Like a winner of Mega Millions or the beneficiary of a large inheritance, the New York City public schools are contemplating a windfall. Assuming that New York State ultimately complies with the recommendations released this week by a court-appointed panel, the city schools stand to get $5.6 billion a year in additional operating money, phased in over four years, and $9.2 billion in new school buildings, classrooms, libraries and other capital improvements. But spending that amount of money, even for the nation's largest school system, will be a challenge. Consider the obstacles: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wants to spend $572 million on full-day prekindergarten for 75,000 4-year-olds and half-days for 35,000 3-year-olds. But to do that would require hiring more than 4,000 teachers and adding tens of thousands |
1214079 | 2000 | 07 | 11 | A New Conservative Face Alters Canada's Political Landscape |
Stockwell Day, the new leader of Canada's opposition going into elections expected next spring, offers a conservative face rarely associated with Canadian politicians: support for a flat income tax, tougher sentencing for criminals and beefed up military spending.
But his sudden sweep to national prominence, culminating with his decisive election Saturday night as leader of the new Canadian Alliance Party, seems vaguely familiar, leading some commentators to call him the Pierre Trudeau of the right.
| Stockwell Day, the new leader of Canada's opposition going into elections expected next spring, offers a conservative face rarely associated with Canadian politicians: support for a flat income tax, tougher sentencing for criminals and beefed up military spending. But his sudden sweep to national prominence, culminating with his decisive election Saturday night as leader of the new Canadian Alliance Party, seems vaguely familiar, leading some commentators to call him the Pierre Trudeau of the right. Like Mr. Trudeau, a Liberal prime minister who came to power on the wings of Trudeaumania at age 48, Mr. Day, 49, comes along at a time when more and more Canadians say they are weary of an aging prime minister, in this case Jean Chretien. Now 66, Mr. Chretien was first elected |
1603569 | 2004 | 08 | 13 | Kicking the Tires, From Afar and Online |
SANDY GERLI'S eBay car habit started three years ago. He wanted to buy a first car for his teenage son, so he went online and bid successfully on a used Mercedes diesel sedan for $1,700. When a truck totaled the car a year later, he went back and bought another for $1,300. It only lasted a few months, but ''we got our money's worth,'' he said. He bought a third for $2,500 last year.
Then there's the Mercedes that Mr. Gerli, who is from Simsbury, Conn., bought on eBay for himself for $3,500. He's still driving it three years later. Since he no longer needed his old sedan, he auctioned it off for $4,200. ''Whatever car I buy next,'' he said, ''I'll do it online.''
| SANDY GERLI'S eBay car habit started three years ago. He wanted to buy a first car for his teenage son, so he went online and bid successfully on a used Mercedes diesel sedan for $1,700. When a truck totaled the car a year later, he went back and bought another for $1,300. It only lasted a few months, but ''we got our money's worth,'' he said. He bought a third for $2,500 last year. Then there's the Mercedes that Mr. Gerli, who is from Simsbury, Conn., bought on eBay for himself for $3,500. He's still driving it three years later. Since he no longer needed his old sedan, he auctioned it off for $4,200. ''Whatever car I buy next,'' he said, ''I'll do it online.'' Everyone is a |
1760065 | 2006 | 05 | 07 | A Gay Soap (and Soapbox) in the Bronx |
It's tough being a drag queen. It's even tougher being a drag queen in the Bronx. You get no respect. You can count the gay-friendly bars on one hand. But at least one night a week, at precisely 11 p.m., you have one thing to call your own.
A soap opera.
| It's tough being a drag queen. It's even tougher being a drag queen in the Bronx. You get no respect. You can count the gay-friendly bars on one hand. But at least one night a week, at precisely 11 p.m., you have one thing to call your own. A soap opera. Every Saturday evening, one of the longest-running programs on Bronx public access television entertains and confounds viewers with a 30-minute burst of gender-bending camp and low-budget intrigue. The television show is called ''Strange Fruits,'' and it is everything the Bronx is not -- flamboyantly irreverent, unabashedly gay and teeming with men in high heels and pantyhose. It is like ''Dynasty,'' if ''Dynasty'' starred mostly untrained, unpaid actors and followed the exploits of a transsexual Southern belle turned |
1599563 | 2004 | 07 | 26 | Worth Watching |
Among the speakers on this evening's program.
Tammy Baldwin Representative Until 1998, being gay and a candidate for the House of Representatives meant waiting until after the election to come out. So when Tammy Baldwin ran as a lesbian for an open seat in Wisconsin's Second Congressional District that year, gays nationally took a keen interest. Ms. Baldwin won and has championed gay rights in the House ever since, co-sponsoring a bill to ban hiring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and voting against legislation to bar gays from the Boy Scouts. In 2002, Ms. Baldwin won a comfortable victory over Ron Greer, an opponent of gay-rights legislation.
| Among the speakers on this evening's program. Tammy Baldwin Representative Until 1998, being gay and a candidate for the House of Representatives meant waiting until after the election to come out. So when Tammy Baldwin ran as a lesbian for an open seat in Wisconsin's Second Congressional District that year, gays nationally took a keen interest. Ms. Baldwin won and has championed gay rights in the House ever since, co-sponsoring a bill to ban hiring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and voting against legislation to bar gays from the Boy Scouts. In 2002, Ms. Baldwin won a comfortable victory over Ron Greer, an opponent of gay-rights legislation. Kendrick B. Meek Representative When Kendrick B. Meek ran for Congress for the first time in 2002, he had |
1760777 | 2006 | 05 | 11 | Energy From Classical and Pop, Charles Ives to Frank Zappa |
This year's incarnation of the Tribeca New Music Festival, at the Flea Theater, is devoted to what the program book calls ''The Emerging Avant-Pop,'' or music that draws its energy from both popular music and classical forms.
That description is a bigger catchall than it might at first seem: at the Sunday evening performance by the violinist Mary Rowell and the pianist Geoffrey Burleson it included Charles Ives's ''Three-Page Sonata'' (1905) and Vincent Persichetti's Sonata No. 12 (1982): arguably avant, in their day, and pop, after a fashion, but hardly emerging.
| This year's incarnation of the Tribeca New Music Festival, at the Flea Theater, is devoted to what the program book calls ''The Emerging Avant-Pop,'' or music that draws its energy from both popular music and classical forms. That description is a bigger catchall than it might at first seem: at the Sunday evening performance by the violinist Mary Rowell and the pianist Geoffrey Burleson it included Charles Ives's ''Three-Page Sonata'' (1905) and Vincent Persichetti's Sonata No. 12 (1982): arguably avant, in their day, and pop, after a fashion, but hardly emerging. Still, both works are couched in complex rhythms, with attractively simple melodies sometimes swimming through them. And Mr. Burleson played them with the energy and passion of a jazz player at the densest moment of a solo. |
1634930 | 2004 | 12 | 15 | For the Red Sox, Loyalty Is a Dish Not Served at All |
IT is much too easy to call Pedro Martínez the selfish one, to say he is walking out on the Red Sox, his baseball family, for the extra year of the Mets' crazy money. Martínez has already made more than $90 million in Boston the last seven years and was offered $40.5 million more to stay. So people ask: how much does this idiosyncratic ingrate need?
When these deals go down, this is typically what ''the deserting player'' is accused of. No matter where he goes, what he says, greed is the stated motivation. There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Martínez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium, pending agreement on a thorough physical examination the Mets had better make sure he has.
| IT is much too easy to call Pedro Martínez the selfish one, to say he is walking out on the Red Sox, his baseball family, for the extra year of the Mets' crazy money. Martínez has already made more than $90 million in Boston the last seven years and was offered $40.5 million more to stay. So people ask: how much does this idiosyncratic ingrate need? When these deals go down, this is typically what ''the deserting player'' is accused of. No matter where he goes, what he says, greed is the stated motivation. There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Martínez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium, pending agreement on a thorough |
1398962 | 2002 | 06 | 09 | Solo in Italy |
To the Editor: I sympathize with Mark Rotella's experiences traveling as a single in Italy (''Alone at Sunset in a Land Without Singles,'' May 26). It is far worse for a woman -- particularly an older one -- who may find no one being helpful or even flirtatious.
I am a writer, and I do a considerable amount of traveling by myself, by choice. This includes almost every South and Central American country, Cuba, Spain and, most recently India. I have had wonderful experiences and generally encountered interest and curiosity tempered by courtesy.
| To the Editor: I sympathize with Mark Rotella's experiences traveling as a single in Italy (''Alone at Sunset in a Land Without Singles,'' May 26). It is far worse for a woman -- particularly an older one -- who may find no one being helpful or even flirtatious. I am a writer, and I do a considerable amount of traveling by myself, by choice. This includes almost every South and Central American country, Cuba, Spain and, most recently India. I have had wonderful experiences and generally encountered interest and curiosity tempered by courtesy. It saddens me the way a lone traveler is treated in Italy because it has prevented me from exploring my own Italian roots in Molise, and made me think twice about return trips to one |
1416072 | 2002 | 08 | 15 | Venezuela Supreme Court Clears 4 Military Officers in Uprising |
The Supreme Court of Venezuela today dismissed the case against four military officers the government had accused of rebelling against President Hugo Chávez in April. The ruling set off violent protests by supporters of the president in the streets of the capital.
By a vote of 11 to 8, the justices held that the four officers -- the former commander of the army, two navy admirals and an air force general -- should not stand trial on charges they had risen up against the government on April 11, temporarily forcing Mr. Chávez from power. He returned to office two days later when his supporters rose up against an interim government that replaced him.
| The Supreme Court of Venezuela today dismissed the case against four military officers the government had accused of rebelling against President Hugo Chávez in April. The ruling set off violent protests by supporters of the president in the streets of the capital. By a vote of 11 to 8, the justices held that the four officers -- the former commander of the army, two navy admirals and an air force general -- should not stand trial on charges they had risen up against the government on April 11, temporarily forcing Mr. Chávez from power. He returned to office two days later when his supporters rose up against an interim government that replaced him. The decision is sure to anger Mr. Chávez. On Sunday he warned the justices that |
1515672 | 2003 | 08 | 30 | Houston Punishes Former Principal in Undercount of Dropouts |
The Houston Independent School District will dock the salary of the former principal and a computer technician at Sharpstown High School, where false claims of no dropouts led to a state audit that found that nearly all the Houston schools examined were vastly undercounting dropouts.
The principal, Dr. Carol Wichmann, who retired in June, will lose $3,000 in salary, and the technician, Kenneth Cuadra, will be put on unpaid leave for two weeks and be reassigned, a spokesman for the district said. The district reassigned Sharpstown administrators to other offices and gave three reprimands. It also reprimanded the area superintendent, Anne Patterson.
| The Houston Independent School District will dock the salary of the former principal and a computer technician at Sharpstown High School, where false claims of no dropouts led to a state audit that found that nearly all the Houston schools examined were vastly undercounting dropouts. The principal, Dr. Carol Wichmann, who retired in June, will lose $3,000 in salary, and the technician, Kenneth Cuadra, will be put on unpaid leave for two weeks and be reassigned, a spokesman for the district said. The district reassigned Sharpstown administrators to other offices and gave three reprimands. It also reprimanded the area superintendent, Anne Patterson. This evening, Mr. Cuadra, who has denied wrongdoing, said he stood to lose $1,500, the equivalent of his family's monthly mortgage and car payments. His lawyer, |
1366678 | 2002 | 02 | 10 | A New Scrutiny of Somalia as the Old Anarchy Reigns |
Aghanistan may have been a failed state, but it was a state that Somalis could gaze upon with envy.
Somalia is so fractured that the nominal government controls less than half its capital city and some coastal strips. The north has two breakaway states, and in the rest 30 clans with overlapping borders go to war over land, cattle raids and blood feuds.
| Aghanistan may have been a failed state, but it was a state that Somalis could gaze upon with envy. Somalia is so fractured that the nominal government controls less than half its capital city and some coastal strips. The north has two breakaway states, and in the rest 30 clans with overlapping borders go to war over land, cattle raids and blood feuds. With no central bank to object, businessmen have privately printed billions in the national currency, the shilling, rendering it almost worthless. The country's biggest exports, beef and camel meat, were banned 14 months ago for fear of Rift Valley fever, which can be fatal to humans. And in 12 years of civil war, warlords have shelled or looted everything. Nonetheless, and despite a disastrous street |
1788487 | 2006 | 09 | 09 | Musical Chairs in the Executive Suites |
TUMULT in executive suites shook up some storied corners of corporate America, including Ford, Boeing and Viacom, as underperforming chief executives were effectively fired -- or, in one case, fired himself -- and several boardroom bridesmaids were finally given their shot at the top.
Whether the changes prove to be good news for investors remains to be seen, but some unequivocally good news came from the Gulf of Mexico, where deepwater drilling has turned up evidence of potentially huge new oil deposits.
SHIFTING GEARS -- William Clay Ford Jr., a great-grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Company, replaced himself as chief executive with an aerospace executive in an effort to turn around the company, which has lost roughly $1.5 billion so far this year and is in danger of being overtaken by Toyota as the nation's second-biggest carmaker.
| TUMULT in executive suites shook up some storied corners of corporate America, including Ford, Boeing and Viacom, as underperforming chief executives were effectively fired -- or, in one case, fired himself -- and several boardroom bridesmaids were finally given their shot at the top. Whether the changes prove to be good news for investors remains to be seen, but some unequivocally good news came from the Gulf of Mexico, where deepwater drilling has turned up evidence of potentially huge new oil deposits. SHIFTING GEARS -- William Clay Ford Jr., a great-grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Company, replaced himself as chief executive with an aerospace executive in an effort to turn around the company, which has lost roughly $1.5 billion so far this year and is |
1249671 | 2000 | 11 | 23 | Zimmer Is Granted Recount In House Race Against Holt |
A judge in New Jersey Superior Court yesterday granted Republicans' request for a recount in the state's 12th Congressional District, where the Democratic incumbent, Representative Rush Holt, has already declared victory.
Although Mr. Holt claimed victory in the race on Friday, saying his 481-vote lead was a statistical clincher, his Republican opponent, Dick Zimmer, insists that the contest is still too close to call and has refused to concede.
| A judge in New Jersey Superior Court yesterday granted Republicans' request for a recount in the state's 12th Congressional District, where the Democratic incumbent, Representative Rush Holt, has already declared victory. Although Mr. Holt claimed victory in the race on Friday, saying his 481-vote lead was a statistical clincher, his Republican opponent, Dick Zimmer, insists that the contest is still too close to call and has refused to concede. Yesterday, Judge Robert E. Guterl of Superior Court in Somerville agreed that a formal recount of the district's 290,969 votes was justified by Mr. Holt's slender lead. John Holub, Mr. Zimmer's campaign manager, said Mr. Holt's lead equaled 0.2 percent, a figure too small to accept as final. ''It really merits a recount,'' Mr. Holub said. ''We just want |
1847475 | 2007 | 05 | 15 | For ABC, Dramas Fill Out The Lineup |
ABC will continue to be the most aggressive of the networks with its lineup of new shows for the next television season, ordering at least 11 new series, when it officially announces its fall schedule to advertisers today.
That network already has more big hits than any of its competitors and is looking to add to the total by bringing in the biggest list of new contenders.
| ABC will continue to be the most aggressive of the networks with its lineup of new shows for the next television season, ordering at least 11 new series, when it officially announces its fall schedule to advertisers today. That network already has more big hits than any of its competitors and is looking to add to the total by bringing in the biggest list of new contenders. According to network and studio executives who know of the shows ABC has ordered, the network will add seven new hourlong dramas and four new comedies to its lineup. Most of these will come on the air in the fall, but many will be scheduled later in the season. Most prominent of the new entries will be ''Private Practice,'' the spinoff |
1490397 | 2003 | 05 | 20 | Helping Binyam, When His Mother Won't |
Alas, there are several good reasons not to help starving Africans.
I wish the famine were as simple as the local governments portray it: as a drought that has left 40 million Africans at risk of starvation. But after jouncing over rumors of roads in Ethiopia and Eritrea, I've met too many children like Binyam Berhane.
| Alas, there are several good reasons not to help starving Africans. I wish the famine were as simple as the local governments portray it: as a drought that has left 40 million Africans at risk of starvation. But after jouncing over rumors of roads in Ethiopia and Eritrea, I've met too many children like Binyam Berhane. Binyam is a 14-month-old boy in this town in southern Eritrea who came within a whisker of starving to death. But before you reach for your checkbook, I should add that his mother, a 20-year-old woman named Senait Derhane, looks healthy and plump. She was wearing a nice dress and had purple nail polish on her toenails. She acknowledges that the reason she doesn't have food for Binyam is that the Eritrean |
1816274 | 2007 | 01 | 04 | The Democrats' Cautious Tiptoe Around the President's Tax Cuts |
President Bush is all but daring Democratic leaders to attack his signature tax cuts as they take over Congress. But Democrats, perhaps to his frustration, are having none of it.
In an opening salvo on Wednesday, Mr. Bush proclaimed that he would present a budget next month that manages to project a balanced budget by 2012 while permanently extending more than $1 trillion in tax cuts.
| President Bush is all but daring Democratic leaders to attack his signature tax cuts as they take over Congress. But Democrats, perhaps to his frustration, are having none of it. In an opening salvo on Wednesday, Mr. Bush proclaimed that he would present a budget next month that manages to project a balanced budget by 2012 while permanently extending more than $1 trillion in tax cuts. ''It is also a fact that our tax cuts have fueled robust economic growth and record revenues,'' Mr. Bush wrote in an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal. ''We met our goal of cutting the deficit in half three years ahead of schedule.'' The implicit message, which Republican lawmakers reinforced later, was that their tax cuts were popular with voters, that |
1783979 | 2006 | 08 | 20 | Denver |
WHY GO NOW -- Denver was born during the Gold Rush, but the city is now mining its cultural riches. The biggest event on the city's dance card is the October opening of the Denver Art Museum's radical new addition (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000), designed by the star architect Daniel Libeskind. The 146,000-square-foot building, clad in shimmering titanium, seems to explode into peaks, including a dramatically cantilevered section that thrusts out over the sidewalk.
| WHY GO NOW -- Denver was born during the Gold Rush, but the city is now mining its cultural riches. The biggest event on the city's dance card is the October opening of the Denver Art Museum's radical new addition (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000), designed by the star architect Daniel Libeskind. The 146,000-square-foot building, clad in shimmering titanium, seems to explode into peaks, including a dramatically cantilevered section that thrusts out over the sidewalk. Denver's once-sleepy streets are showing other signs of urban life. The residential Highlands district has become a chic neighborhood for young families renovating Victorian houses. In the Uptown neighborhood, to the immediate east of downtown Denver, gay residents and the recently renovated Fillmore Auditorium have created an artsy vibe. Loft-filled LoDo was |
1541676 | 2003 | 12 | 09 | Bush Signs Law To Cover Drugs For the Elderly |
With the theatrics of a campaign kickoff rally, President Bush on Monday signed into law the legislation giving the elderly prescription drug coverage under Medicare for the first time and changing the Medicare system so that private insurance companies will have a much bigger role.
The ceremony took place in one of the largest halls in Washington, filled with thousands of cheering supporters of Mr. Bush. More than a dozen lawmakers, nearly all of them Republicans, surrounded the president as he signed his name.
| With the theatrics of a campaign kickoff rally, President Bush on Monday signed into law the legislation giving the elderly prescription drug coverage under Medicare for the first time and changing the Medicare system so that private insurance companies will have a much bigger role. The ceremony took place in one of the largest halls in Washington, filled with thousands of cheering supporters of Mr. Bush. More than a dozen lawmakers, nearly all of them Republicans, surrounded the president as he signed his name. The elaborate bill-signing was the most visible evidence so far of how the president intended to make the Medicare measure an important issue in his re-election campaign. The White House distributed to lobbyists, campaign donors, politicians and assorted luminaries 2,200 tickets to the ceremony |
1466888 | 2003 | 02 | 22 | Paid Notice: Deaths ALBERTINE, MARGARET |
ALBERTINE - Margaret. A true American beauty, died at home on Friday, February 7, after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer. Her physical beauty was only surpassed by her passion for social justice and her love for animals. A lawyer and an expert on Arabian-Egyptian horses, she was an ardent advocate for the environment and animal rights. She was also a collector of equine art. Intellectually brilliant, she was an honor graduate of Douglas College of Rutgers University and Syracuse Law School where she wrote for Law Review. Margaret is survived by her mother, Elsie F. Albertine, a brother, Michael O. Albertine, a sister Julie A. Levin, and three nephews, Michael J. Albertine, Stephen C. Albertine, and Aaron V. Levin. A memorial service will be held at the B'Nai Shalom Synagogue on 300 Pleasant Valley Way, in West Orange, Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 10:15 A.M. The family requests, that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, or the Humane Society of New York City. For information Jewish Memorial Chapel, Clifton, New Jersey.
| ALBERTINE - Margaret. A true American beauty, died at home on Friday, February 7, after a long and courageous battle with breast cancer. Her physical beauty was only surpassed by her passion for social justice and her love for animals. A lawyer and an expert on Arabian-Egyptian horses, she was an ardent advocate for the environment and animal rights. She was also a collector of equine art. Intellectually brilliant, she was an honor graduate of Douglas College of Rutgers University and Syracuse Law School where she wrote for Law Review. Margaret is survived by her mother, Elsie F. Albertine, a brother, Michael O. Albertine, a sister Julie A. Levin, and three nephews, Michael J. Albertine, Stephen C. Albertine, and Aaron V. Levin. A memorial service will be held |
1534362 | 2003 | 11 | 10 | Paid Notice: Deaths LEVIEN, DONNA JOY |
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Of Kings Point, NY, died on November 8, 2003, of metastatic breast cancer. Dedicated and forever supportive wife to Phil, loving and caring mother to sons Jeff and Mark, and her daughters-in-law Ivy and Joanne. Proud Nanny of grandson Gray. Protective sister and friend to brother Ron Kisner and his wife Ellen. Also survived by mother-inlaw Jane, brothers-in-law Barry and George, and their respective wives, Jane and Margon, and nieces and nephews David, Melissa, Michael, Jamie, David, Tracy, Ashley, Danielle and Alec. She guided her family with love and devotion, and was a loyal and engaging friend to many. She will be missed immensely for her leadership, and will be revered for her courage in her struggle against breast cancer. She was an avid reader, card player, movie goer and traveler. Interment private. Memorial service to be held Monday, November 10, at 2 PM, at Temple Emanuel, 150 Hicks Lane, Great Neck, NY. In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to your favorite charity in her memory.
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. You made every day an adventure, every night a party. We will miss your phone calls, vivacious personality, beautiful smile and generous, kind heart. Our deepest sympathy to Phil, Jeffrey, Mark, Grayson, Ron, Ellen, Ivy and Joanne. We will never forget you. Rest in peace, dear friend. Love, Joanne and Michael
LEVIEN--Donna. My friend for over 34 years. A warm, caring, fun, unique and special person. She was beautiful both inside and out. I will always remember the wonderful times together from discos to holidays and cards. I will cherish the memories and love her forever. She will always be my Queen of Hearts. Love, Betsy
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Of Kings Point, NY. We mourn the loss of our dearest friend and aunt. Our kinship and wonderful memories will live in our hearts forever. Our love and sympathy go out to Phil, Mark, Joanne, Jeffrey, Ivy and Grayson. Love, Shelley, Fred, Jon, Amy, Jill and Sandy
LEVIEN--Donna. Our sincere condolences to Phil, Jeff, Ivy, Mark, Joanne, Gray, Ellen and Ron, on the loss of their Donna. We will always remember her and carry her in our hearts forever. Our love and prayers are with you and your wonderful family. Betsy, Bob, Ned, Nancy and Stephen
LEVIEN -- Donna, whose sense of humor, love of life and heroic fight to live was an inspiration to all of us who knew and loved her. We'll never forget our many hilarious times together. Our hearts go out to her devoted husband Philip, and the rest of her wonderful family. Lynne and John Vassallo
LEVIEN--Donna. The Board of Governors and the members of Glen Oaks Club express their deepest sorrow at the passing of Donna, wife of our esteemed member, Philip, and extend our heartfelt sympathy to her family. Board of Governors Alan Goldberg, President
LEVIEN--Donna. No one loved life more than you. You fought a courageous battle. You will be missed by all. Our hearts are with Phil, Jeffrey, Ivy, Grayson, Mark and Joanne. With Love, Brenda and Bob Feldman
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Beautiful sister and wonderful aunt, we will always remember your heart, humor, glamor and grace. We love you and miss you. Ellen, Ron and Tracy Kisner Jamie and Dave Sirkin
LEVIEN--Donna. Always a beautiful smile and an infectious laugh, that is how we will remember you. Our heartfelt condolences to Phil, Jeffrey, Mark, Ivy, Joanne, Gray and the entire Levien and Kisner families. Carol and Richard Kalikow
LEVIEN--Donna. To know Donna was to love her. You will always be a special part of our lives. We will miss you with all our hearts. Lois and Bob Ali and Jason
LEVIEN--Donna. Our hearts, our love and our prayers are with Phil, Jeffrey, Ivy, Mark and Joanne. We have lost a truly wonderful friend and wonderful person. Barbara and Jeffrey London
LEVIEN--Donna. I will always cherish our friendship, and you will be alive in my heart forever. My deepest condolences to the Levien and Kisner families. Ellen Manheimer
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Of Kings Point, NY. We mourn the loss of our sister-in-law, Donna. Our deepest sympathy to Philip and his family. Love, Barry and Jane and Family
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Of Kings Point, NY. God needed another rose in his garden, so he picked you. You're gone but not forgotten. I love you. Gloria
LEVIEN--Donna. On November 8, 2003, our dear friend Donna lost her courageous fight for life. She will always remain in our hearts. Lorraine and Irving Aaron
LEVIEN--Donna. A light that shines as bright as yours can never be extinguished. We will never forget you. Love, Kenny, Alissa, Jesse and Jordana
LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Queen of the cue bids--Queen of our hearts. Tuesday evenings will never be the same. Love, Dina, Oshri, Joanne
LEVIEN--Donna. My Donna Joy, dearest and cherished friend, my queen of cue bids. I'll always love and miss you. Lois
| LEVIEN--Donna Joy. Of Kings Point, NY, died on November 8, 2003, of metastatic breast cancer. Dedicated and forever supportive wife to Phil, loving and caring mother to sons Jeff and Mark, and her daughters-in-law Ivy and Joanne. Proud Nanny of grandson Gray. Protective sister and friend to brother Ron Kisner and his wife Ellen. Also survived by mother-inlaw Jane, brothers-in-law Barry and George, and their respective wives, Jane and Margon, and nieces and nephews David, Melissa, Michael, Jamie, David, Tracy, Ashley, Danielle and Alec. She guided her family with love and devotion, and was a loyal and engaging friend to many. She will be missed immensely for her leadership, and will be revered for her courage in her struggle against breast cancer. She was an avid reader, card |
1670259 | 2005 | 05 | 06 | Exploring Wolf Society, From Alpha To Omega |
Get ready to think about office politics and family affairs in evolutionary-psych terms again. ''Living With Wolves,'' a two-hour documentary about a clique of gray wolves in Idaho, will be televised on the Discovery Channel on Sunday night. Though overlong, the program neatly illuminates rank and competition in the wild. Especially endearing are the scenes that show the pack's omega wolves -- its lowest-ranking members -- as they make the best of their lot, act submissive, make everybody laugh and still have to eat last.
Of course there is also the alpha wolf, Kamots, dignified and well built and true. The naturalist here, Jim Dutcher, who with his wife, Jamie, lived with a wolf pack for six years, openly falls for Kamots, who is, granted, attractive. But he has a lordly manner, especially when he is disciplining his underlings. And he has nothing like the sense of humor of Lakota, his omega brother, who is always initiating play; no wonder Kamots is heartbroken when Lakota dies. Maybe he should have given that little sweetheart more food when he was alive.
| Get ready to think about office politics and family affairs in evolutionary-psych terms again. ''Living With Wolves,'' a two-hour documentary about a clique of gray wolves in Idaho, will be televised on the Discovery Channel on Sunday night. Though overlong, the program neatly illuminates rank and competition in the wild. Especially endearing are the scenes that show the pack's omega wolves -- its lowest-ranking members -- as they make the best of their lot, act submissive, make everybody laugh and still have to eat last. Of course there is also the alpha wolf, Kamots, dignified and well built and true. The naturalist here, Jim Dutcher, who with his wife, Jamie, lived with a wolf pack for six years, openly falls for Kamots, who is, granted, attractive. But he |
1416821 | 2002 | 08 | 18 | On Wall Street After Dark, A New Bohemia Beckons |
AT 1 a.m. on a recent Saturday, the area around ground zero in Lower Manhattan appeared deserted except for a crew from Con Edison. But on a side street, among the vacancy signs and garbage bags, throngs of young people dressed in retro rock T-shirts crowded the entrance to the John Street Bar and Grill.
Gideon Yago, 24, an MTV News reporter who was serving as D.J. that evening, lugged his records past several Vespas and locked bicycles. The bouncer let him pass without paying the $1 cover charge.
| AT 1 a.m. on a recent Saturday, the area around ground zero in Lower Manhattan appeared deserted except for a crew from Con Edison. But on a side street, among the vacancy signs and garbage bags, throngs of young people dressed in retro rock T-shirts crowded the entrance to the John Street Bar and Grill. Gideon Yago, 24, an MTV News reporter who was serving as D.J. that evening, lugged his records past several Vespas and locked bicycles. The bouncer let him pass without paying the $1 cover charge. Two women, who seemed accustomed to having velvet ropes part for them, were waiting patiently nearby. ''That's so punk rock that there's no guest list,'' one said. In the last few months, young people usually seen cruising the thrift |
1306414 | 2001 | 07 | 02 | A Certain Age, Uncertain Income |
To the Editor:
I was on my commute via car, ferry and subway from my home in Staten Island to my relatively new job in Manhattan, a job acquired in my 60th year, when I was shocked to learn in a June 26 front-page article about older divorced women and their retirement problems that I am elderly!
My dictionary says that elderly is ''past middle age.'' I guess I am that, unless I live to be past 120. My thesaurus in Microsoft Word (yes, I am computer literate at this advanced age) says that elderly is ''old,'' ''venerable,'' ''aged,'' ''retired,'' ''seasoned,'' ''of a ripe age,'' ''declining'' and ''in the autumn years.''
| To the Editor: I was on my commute via car, ferry and subway from my home in Staten Island to my relatively new job in Manhattan, a job acquired in my 60th year, when I was shocked to learn in a June 26 front-page article about older divorced women and their retirement problems that I am elderly! My dictionary says that elderly is ''past middle age.'' I guess I am that, unless I live to be past 120. My thesaurus in Microsoft Word (yes, I am computer literate at this advanced age) says that elderly is ''old,'' ''venerable,'' ''aged,'' ''retired,'' ''seasoned,'' ''of a ripe age,'' ''declining'' and ''in the autumn years.'' I don't think of myself in any of those terms -- well, maybe seasoned and venerable. But |
1459554 | 2003 | 01 | 26 | Rangers Relapse Against Thrashers |
Just when it looked as if the Rangers might be turning the corner this season, they reverted to their old form at Madison Square Garden yesterday.
''We stunk,'' Eric Lindros said after a deflating 4-1 loss to the Atlanta Thrashers. Dany Heatley, last season's rookie of the year, had his second hat trick in less than two weeks, and Slava Kozlov had three assists to lead Atlanta.
| Just when it looked as if the Rangers might be turning the corner this season, they reverted to their old form at Madison Square Garden yesterday. ''We stunk,'' Eric Lindros said after a deflating 4-1 loss to the Atlanta Thrashers. Dany Heatley, last season's rookie of the year, had his second hat trick in less than two weeks, and Slava Kozlov had three assists to lead Atlanta. Lindros was talking, in particular, about his line, which was outplayed by the 22-year-old Heatley's line. Since Rangers Coach Bryan Trottier reunited Lindros with center Bobby Holik and left wing Matthew Barnaby in late December, the top line had been outplaying every line it faced -- until yesterday. Atlanta Coach Bob Hartley, who is 4-1-1 since taking over the lowly Thrashers |
1735788 | 2006 | 01 | 29 | Jack Welch Endows Sacred Heart University |
The most recent résumé of Jack Welch, the former General Electric chairman, includes a successful memoir, ''Jack: Straight from the Gut,'' and a consulting business. On Wednesday, he added one more credit: his name on Sacred Heart University's business school after making a donation to the university.
Neither the university nor a spokeswoman for Mr. Welch, Rosanne Badowski, would reveal the amount of Mr. Welch's gift to the university, which is in Fairfield, the longtime home of General Electric. But the university said in a news release that it was the largest gift in the university's history.
| The most recent résumé of Jack Welch, the former General Electric chairman, includes a successful memoir, ''Jack: Straight from the Gut,'' and a consulting business. On Wednesday, he added one more credit: his name on Sacred Heart University's business school after making a donation to the university. Neither the university nor a spokeswoman for Mr. Welch, Rosanne Badowski, would reveal the amount of Mr. Welch's gift to the university, which is in Fairfield, the longtime home of General Electric. But the university said in a news release that it was the largest gift in the university's history. Anthony J. Cernera, president of the university, announced the gift at an event at the university Wednesday. Almost 30 percent of Sacred Heart's undergraduates major in business. ''Today was so inspiring |
1247941 | 2000 | 11 | 17 | Relaxed and Content at Ranch, Bush Leaves Controversy Elsewhere |
He has no cable or satellite television and only a few local channels, and he rarely turns to those. While they might bring bulletins about a matter no smaller than his hopes for moving into the White House, Gov. George W. Bush is not inclined to get that consumed.
So he runs and walks and whacks at the vegetation that crops up in unwelcome places on his 1,500-acre ranch, which he treasures for its remoteness, perhaps now more than ever. It sits about 90 miles northwest of the Governor's Mansion here. It sits an even greater emotional distance from the advisers and the reporters and all the reminders of the confusion and uncertainty into which presidential race has devolved.
| He has no cable or satellite television and only a few local channels, and he rarely turns to those. While they might bring bulletins about a matter no smaller than his hopes for moving into the White House, Gov. George W. Bush is not inclined to get that consumed. So he runs and walks and whacks at the vegetation that crops up in unwelcome places on his 1,500-acre ranch, which he treasures for its remoteness, perhaps now more than ever. It sits about 90 miles northwest of the Governor's Mansion here. It sits an even greater emotional distance from the advisers and the reporters and all the reminders of the confusion and uncertainty into which presidential race has devolved. Early this week, while many other Americans remained riveted |
1645226 | 2005 | 01 | 27 | Read My Ears |
Having spent the last 10 days traveling to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, I have one small suggestion for President Bush. I suggest that when he comes to Europe to mend fences next month he give only one speech. It should be at his first stop in Brussels and it should consist of basically three words: ''Read my ears.''
Let me put this as bluntly as I can: There is nothing that the Europeans want to hear from George Bush, there is nothing that they will listen to from George Bush that will change their minds about him or the Iraq war or U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Bush is more widely and deeply disliked in Europe than any U.S. president in history. Some people here must have a good thing to say about him, but I haven't met them yet.
| Having spent the last 10 days traveling to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, I have one small suggestion for President Bush. I suggest that when he comes to Europe to mend fences next month he give only one speech. It should be at his first stop in Brussels and it should consist of basically three words: ''Read my ears.'' Let me put this as bluntly as I can: There is nothing that the Europeans want to hear from George Bush, there is nothing that they will listen to from George Bush that will change their minds about him or the Iraq war or U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Bush is more widely and deeply disliked in Europe than any U.S. president in history. Some people here must have a |
1178067 | 2000 | 02 | 20 | Critics of Park Fences Show Lack of Awareness |
To the Editor:
Thank you for a very funny essay that deals with a sad situation. The Central Park Conservancy first beautified the park's landscape. Now in their misguided zeal to protect the new lawns and landscape they have fenced nearly every patch of green, forcing park users to walk through ugly fences. New Yorkers can now peer wistfully at park spaces they once enjoyed through chain link or wooden slats and read the large green signs posted by the conservancy telling them what activities are allowed on the lawns (very few). I have seen park enforcement officers rebuking mothers for throwing large inflated balls to their toddlers on the Great Lawn, whose enclosure behind a large metal fence was supposed to be temporary. The current park managers have lost sight of the beauty, flow and spirit of the park.
NANCY DROSD Upper East Side
| To the Editor: Thank you for a very funny essay that deals with a sad situation. The Central Park Conservancy first beautified the park's landscape. Now in their misguided zeal to protect the new lawns and landscape they have fenced nearly every patch of green, forcing park users to walk through ugly fences. New Yorkers can now peer wistfully at park spaces they once enjoyed through chain link or wooden slats and read the large green signs posted by the conservancy telling them what activities are allowed on the lawns (very few). I have seen park enforcement officers rebuking mothers for throwing large inflated balls to their toddlers on the Great Lawn, whose enclosure behind a large metal fence was supposed to be temporary. The current park managers |
1752859 | 2006 | 04 | 08 | Town Ties Its Rejuvenation to That of Crumbling Church |
Bathed in the blue-green hue of the Chinati Mountains, this isolated hamlet of 19 people hugging the Mexican border is a part of West Texas ravaged by time.
Gone are the boisterous river currents that gave Ruidosa (''noisy'' in Spanish) its name, the Rio Grande's flow having been depleted decades ago by dam and irrigation projects farther north. Salt cedars, brought from Asia in the early 20th century and planted here as ornamental soil stabilizers, still suck precious water out of the river.
| Bathed in the blue-green hue of the Chinati Mountains, this isolated hamlet of 19 people hugging the Mexican border is a part of West Texas ravaged by time. Gone are the boisterous river currents that gave Ruidosa (''noisy'' in Spanish) its name, the Rio Grande's flow having been depleted decades ago by dam and irrigation projects farther north. Salt cedars, brought from Asia in the early 20th century and planted here as ornamental soil stabilizers, still suck precious water out of the river. The weather-beaten adobe walls of a neglected Roman Catholic church with its three sun-dried arches are the only reminder that Ruidosa once flourished as a cotton-growing center with more than 300 residents, its own cotton gin and a half dozen cantinas. The Misión del Sagrado |
1428148 | 2002 | 10 | 01 | Wendy Hilton, 71, Specialist In Recreating Baroque Dance |
Wendy Hilton, a specialist in Baroque dance, died on Sept. 21 at her home in Manhattan. She was 71.
The cause was cancer, said Edward Manowitz, a friend.
| Wendy Hilton, a specialist in Baroque dance, died on Sept. 21 at her home in Manhattan. She was 71. The cause was cancer, said Edward Manowitz, a friend. Ms. Hilton, who was born in England, came to New York in 1969 to direct the Dance Collegium of Rosalyn Tureck's International Bach Society. In 1974 she joined the drama faculty at the Juilliard School, transferring the next year to the dance division. Many of her most vivid and revealing reconstructions and choreographing of Baroque dance were created for Juilliard students. Among those dances were stagings of 18th-century pieces by Anthony L'Abbe, Louis Pecour and Raoul-Auger Feuillet. The dances were performed for the most part with a luminous purity, ease and respect that were surprising from young dancers training in |
1854588 | 2007 | 06 | 15 | Energy Measure Blocked By Republicans in Senate |
Senate Democrats, facing their first significant battle over a wide-ranging bill intended to reduce oil consumption, found themselves blocked by Republicans on Thursday and postponed all significant votes until next week.
Republicans vowed to filibuster over a Democratic proposal that would force electric utility companies to generate a big share of their power from renewable fuels, and Democrats failed to muster the 60 votes needed to close off debate.
| Senate Democrats, facing their first significant battle over a wide-ranging bill intended to reduce oil consumption, found themselves blocked by Republicans on Thursday and postponed all significant votes until next week. Republicans vowed to filibuster over a Democratic proposal that would force electric utility companies to generate a big share of their power from renewable fuels, and Democrats failed to muster the 60 votes needed to close off debate. The impasse forced Democrats to begin negotiating a possible compromise with Republicans and the power industry, which have argued that companies in many parts of the country simply cannot generate enough power from wind or solar energy to meet the requirements. ''We're trying to work something out,'' said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate Democratic leader. But by |
1572547 | 2004 | 04 | 08 | Mayor Says Prevention Is Key In Plan to Hold Back Students |
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday vigorously defended his administration's plans to hold back failing third graders and said the city would focus more on prevention efforts for young children than Chicago, whose policy against social promotion was sharply criticized in two new studies.
The mayor also subtly shifted the blame for failing students away from the children and toward their parents, a small but significant move that comes after a period of intense criticism from various advocacy groups against his new policy.
| Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday vigorously defended his administration's plans to hold back failing third graders and said the city would focus more on prevention efforts for young children than Chicago, whose policy against social promotion was sharply criticized in two new studies. The mayor also subtly shifted the blame for failing students away from the children and toward their parents, a small but significant move that comes after a period of intense criticism from various advocacy groups against his new policy. Many education experts cite a lack of parent involvement as one of the key components of a student's failure to thrive academically. By the same token, several studies have found that when parents are trained to assist their children, academic achievement improves substantially. ''Parents have a |
1539527 | 2003 | 11 | 30 | Australia Tops Spain For Title in Davis Cup |
Mark Philippoussis put the Australian crowd through a wild emotional ride before beating Juan Carlos Ferrero, 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-0, on Sunday to give the host Australians a 3-1 victory in the three-of-five Davis Cup final.
In the opening singles Friday, Ferrero started strongly against Lleyton Hewitt before collapsing and losing in five sets. Philippoussis started sluggishly against Carlos Moya, and a late surge could not save him from a four-set loss.
| Mark Philippoussis put the Australian crowd through a wild emotional ride before beating Juan Carlos Ferrero, 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 2-6, 6-0, on Sunday to give the host Australians a 3-1 victory in the three-of-five Davis Cup final. In the opening singles Friday, Ferrero started strongly against Lleyton Hewitt before collapsing and losing in five sets. Philippoussis started sluggishly against Carlos Moya, and a late surge could not save him from a four-set loss. The pattern was reversed for both men Sunday. Philippoussis found his range and his emotional focus from the first game. He also set a pattern that was to continue for much of the match. Despite thumping three aces, he still had to survive a break point and three deuces before holding serve. Throughout the match, |
1845484 | 2007 | 05 | 06 | At Religious Preschools, Worries About Others Looking Over Their Shoulders |
The city's health code spells out hundreds of regulations governing preschools and day care centers, ranging from the urgent (rooftop play areas must be fenced; teachers must get inoculations and pass background checks) to the comparatively minor (one toilet per 15 children, and 30 square feet of space per child; no television for children under 2; no whole milk for children over 2).
The rules cover all the city's private preschools, with one longstanding exception: From the yeshivas of Williamsburg to the parochial schools of the South Bronx, preschools attached to religious elementary schools are, in effect, exempt.
| The city's health code spells out hundreds of regulations governing preschools and day care centers, ranging from the urgent (rooftop play areas must be fenced; teachers must get inoculations and pass background checks) to the comparatively minor (one toilet per 15 children, and 30 square feet of space per child; no television for children under 2; no whole milk for children over 2). The rules cover all the city's private preschools, with one longstanding exception: From the yeshivas of Williamsburg to the parochial schools of the South Bronx, preschools attached to religious elementary schools are, in effect, exempt. ''We don't know the history of the exemption,'' said Jessica Leighton, the Health Department's deputy commissioner for environmental health. ''It's been over 25 years that this has existed.'' But now, |
1491601 | 2003 | 05 | 25 | On Taxes, What's The Fairest Of Them All? |
LAST week, the House and Senate agreed to $320 billion in tax cuts. Not surprisingly, the plan deals with some economic inefficiencies, albeit in a clumsy way, and will provide the biggest benefits to the wealthy. Sadly, a politically unmentionable alternative might have done better.
The Congressional plan will, among other things, reduce taxes on capital gains and dividends for the next several years, a step that will take most tax considerations out of a company's decision to sell stocks or bonds. Indeed, there's no reason that taxes, rather than the finances of a company and its investors, should play a role.
| LAST week, the House and Senate agreed to $320 billion in tax cuts. Not surprisingly, the plan deals with some economic inefficiencies, albeit in a clumsy way, and will provide the biggest benefits to the wealthy. Sadly, a politically unmentionable alternative might have done better. The Congressional plan will, among other things, reduce taxes on capital gains and dividends for the next several years, a step that will take most tax considerations out of a company's decision to sell stocks or bonds. Indeed, there's no reason that taxes, rather than the finances of a company and its investors, should play a role. At the moment, dividends on shares face higher taxes than interest on bonds and loans. Say a company wants an investor in its stock or bonds |
1698333 | 2005 | 08 | 30 | Indonesia Mobilizing Against New Polio Outbreak |
In the midst of a huge global push to eradicate polio after 17 years of trying, Indonesia is confronting a polio epidemic that is the largest it has ever recorded. It will mobilize 750,000 workers and volunteers today and tomorrow to immunize 24 million children across a vast archipelago of more than 6,000 islands.
World Health Organization officials hope the country can halt the spread of the crippling virus from Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous nation, to a broad swath of Asian countries that include the Philippines, Malaysia and China. Indonesia will conduct two more mass immunization campaigns, in September and November.
| In the midst of a huge global push to eradicate polio after 17 years of trying, Indonesia is confronting a polio epidemic that is the largest it has ever recorded. It will mobilize 750,000 workers and volunteers today and tomorrow to immunize 24 million children across a vast archipelago of more than 6,000 islands. World Health Organization officials hope the country can halt the spread of the crippling virus from Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous nation, to a broad swath of Asian countries that include the Philippines, Malaysia and China. Indonesia will conduct two more mass immunization campaigns, in September and November. Indonesia itself had been free of polio since 1995 until this March, when a 20-month-old boy was paralyzed by the virus. Since then, 225 children have been |
1761785 | 2006 | 05 | 14 | Jogging for Fitness Leads Down a Road to Fame |
ONE night in March 1976, Patti Lyons, was in a Boston-area bar with a group of nurses after work. She was dissatisfied with her job as a nurses' aide and when she looked down at her thighs she realized that at 23, she had gained 45 pounds since she graduated from high school. She smoked and spent a lot of nights like this one sitting on a bar stool. So she decided to start jogging.
Ms. Lyons, who swam competitively as a child, went jogging the next morning and ended up running seven miles around a cemetery in her hometown, Quincy, Mass. She was so sore the next day she could barely get out of bed.
| ONE night in March 1976, Patti Lyons, was in a Boston-area bar with a group of nurses after work. She was dissatisfied with her job as a nurses' aide and when she looked down at her thighs she realized that at 23, she had gained 45 pounds since she graduated from high school. She smoked and spent a lot of nights like this one sitting on a bar stool. So she decided to start jogging. Ms. Lyons, who swam competitively as a child, went jogging the next morning and ended up running seven miles around a cemetery in her hometown, Quincy, Mass. She was so sore the next day she could barely get out of bed. Six months later, Ms. Lyons won her first marathon, in Rhode Island, |
1594843 | 2004 | 07 | 07 | Judgment At Baghdad |
I spent six months in Baghdad in 2003 working with Iraqis to devise a strategy for bringing Saddam Hussein and his cronies to account. Mr. Hussein's appearance before an Iraqi judge last week was the culmination of a remarkable collaboration between the American-led coalition and Iraqi jurists. It also marked an important new stage in the evolution of international justice.
For probably the first time in history a country will put its former leaders on trial under international criminal law in a locally constituted court. Unlike its United Nations-sponsored cousins in The Hague and Sierra Leone, the Iraqi Special Tribunal empowers local officials to bring the perpetrators of atrocity crimes to trial. International financing will go where it will do the most good -- toward rebuilding Iraq's judiciary and ensuring that the victims of Mr. Hussein's regime are finally heard.
| I spent six months in Baghdad in 2003 working with Iraqis to devise a strategy for bringing Saddam Hussein and his cronies to account. Mr. Hussein's appearance before an Iraqi judge last week was the culmination of a remarkable collaboration between the American-led coalition and Iraqi jurists. It also marked an important new stage in the evolution of international justice. For probably the first time in history a country will put its former leaders on trial under international criminal law in a locally constituted court. Unlike its United Nations-sponsored cousins in The Hague and Sierra Leone, the Iraqi Special Tribunal empowers local officials to bring the perpetrators of atrocity crimes to trial. International financing will go where it will do the most good -- toward rebuilding Iraq's judiciary |
1348338 | 2001 | 12 | 04 | Fed Now Says '02 Recovery Will Be Slow |
Federal Reserve officials say they expect a modest and gradual recovery in the economy next year rather than the quick turnaround many investors and forecasters are expecting. That suggests the central bankers are open to at least one further interest rate cut and may keep rates lower for longer than financial markets anticipate.
The officials said the recovery could be tempered by a variety of forces, from high levels of consumer and corporate debt to the reluctance of companies to invest in new factories and equipment at a time of uncertainty in the economy and the fight against terrorism.
| Federal Reserve officials say they expect a modest and gradual recovery in the economy next year rather than the quick turnaround many investors and forecasters are expecting. That suggests the central bankers are open to at least one further interest rate cut and may keep rates lower for longer than financial markets anticipate. The officials said the recovery could be tempered by a variety of forces, from high levels of consumer and corporate debt to the reluctance of companies to invest in new factories and equipment at a time of uncertainty in the economy and the fight against terrorism. ''I am of the opinion that the recovery will not begin until mid-2002,'' said Anthony M. Santomero, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. ''I think the forecasters |
1628826 | 2004 | 11 | 21 | Super Trees |
ON a fenced-in lot contaminated by mercury in Danbury, once the site of several hat factories, Jack Kozuchowski is singing the praises of some scrawny cottonwood trees. It is chilly out and drizzling rain, but the city's environmental chief seems not to notice, so excited is he about the potential of these saplings.
In all, there are 60 young cottonwoods on the third-of-an-acre lot, ranging from four to seven feet tall. They are gangly and uninspiring. ''Don't judge them by the stalk of the tree,'' Mr. Kozuchowski said. ''Think of what's going on in the root system below ground. With any type of tree like this, you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.''
| ON a fenced-in lot contaminated by mercury in Danbury, once the site of several hat factories, Jack Kozuchowski is singing the praises of some scrawny cottonwood trees. It is chilly out and drizzling rain, but the city's environmental chief seems not to notice, so excited is he about the potential of these saplings. In all, there are 60 young cottonwoods on the third-of-an-acre lot, ranging from four to seven feet tall. They are gangly and uninspiring. ''Don't judge them by the stalk of the tree,'' Mr. Kozuchowski said. ''Think of what's going on in the root system below ground. With any type of tree like this, you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.'' These are no ordinary trees. In an experiment that is being closely watched by |
1790809 | 2006 | 09 | 17 | Laugh Lines |
Jay Leno
Today, of course, is the fifth anniversary of 9/11. As a comedy show you never know what to do in these sort of situations. As you know, even the folks at ABC ran into some trouble with their 9/11 miniseries. A lot of politicians are upset about the show because they say it cleverly mixes facts with lies to mislead the American public. You'd think politicians would admire that.
| Jay Leno Today, of course, is the fifth anniversary of 9/11. As a comedy show you never know what to do in these sort of situations. As you know, even the folks at ABC ran into some trouble with their 9/11 miniseries. A lot of politicians are upset about the show because they say it cleverly mixes facts with lies to mislead the American public. You'd think politicians would admire that. In defending his hard-line stance on the war against terror, Vice President Dick Cheney said on ''Meet the Press'' on Sunday that part of his job is to think the unthinkable. Like how could have gas dropped 37 cents a gallon in the last few weeks. It's a nightmare! A man by the name of Ulysses S. |
1720221 | 2005 | 11 | 25 | Parade Balloon Hits Light Pole; Two Are Injured |
A giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, swinging out of control in sudden bursts of wind, struck a light pole in Times Square yesterday, injuring two spectators and scaring scores of others in a replay of a 1997 accident that had prompted changes in the handling of the balloons.
The M&M balloon, 515 pounds of polyurethane filled with 13,335 cubic feet of helium, began to tip erratically as it entered Times Square about 11:40 a.m., witnesses said, before it hit the light pole near 43rd Street and was punctured. As the balloon collapsed, it pulled off a light fixture, which crashed to the ground amid a crowd of spectators.
| A giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, swinging out of control in sudden bursts of wind, struck a light pole in Times Square yesterday, injuring two spectators and scaring scores of others in a replay of a 1997 accident that had prompted changes in the handling of the balloons. The M&M balloon, 515 pounds of polyurethane filled with 13,335 cubic feet of helium, began to tip erratically as it entered Times Square about 11:40 a.m., witnesses said, before it hit the light pole near 43rd Street and was punctured. As the balloon collapsed, it pulled off a light fixture, which crashed to the ground amid a crowd of spectators. Police and emergency workers descended on the scene, and the victims -- a 26-year-old woman who was |
1334848 | 2001 | 10 | 18 | Bush's New Focus Requires A Shift in His China Policy |
President Bush, who came into office just months ago talking of China as a ''strategic competitor,'' departed for Shanghai today on a trip expected to complete a significant shift in his policy toward Beijing as he seeks to build, maintain and expand a global coalition against terrorism.
The importance attached to Mr. Bush's appearance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, where he will meet with the leaders of both Russia and China, was clear simply from the fact that the president was taking the trip while his nation was at war and coping with spreading anthrax attacks. When President Bill Clinton was ordering the bombing of Iraq three years ago, he skipped the meeting.
| President Bush, who came into office just months ago talking of China as a ''strategic competitor,'' departed for Shanghai today on a trip expected to complete a significant shift in his policy toward Beijing as he seeks to build, maintain and expand a global coalition against terrorism. The importance attached to Mr. Bush's appearance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, where he will meet with the leaders of both Russia and China, was clear simply from the fact that the president was taking the trip while his nation was at war and coping with spreading anthrax attacks. When President Bill Clinton was ordering the bombing of Iraq three years ago, he skipped the meeting. But Mr. Bush made plain that his focus would not be the trade issues |
1330920 | 2001 | 10 | 05 | Senate Panel Approves Money Laundering Legislation |
The Senate Banking Committee today unanimously approved broad legislation to combat money laundering that would require banks and other financial institutions to make a serious effort to determine the source of deposits from foreign countries.
The bill would also authorize the Treasury Department to take various actions against dubious foreign banks, including prohibiting American banks from dealing with them.
| The Senate Banking Committee today unanimously approved broad legislation to combat money laundering that would require banks and other financial institutions to make a serious effort to determine the source of deposits from foreign countries. The bill would also authorize the Treasury Department to take various actions against dubious foreign banks, including prohibiting American banks from dealing with them. The administration had opposed legislation on this issue before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But this bill moved quickly through the committee after a hard push from the chairman, Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland. ''Terrorist attacks require major investments of time, planning, training and practice -- and the financial resources to pay the bills,'' Mr. Sarbanes said. ''Terrorism is not a penny-ante proposition, and money laundering is |
1225897 | 2000 | 08 | 27 | Political Briefing; A President's Picture Makes a Few Waves |
It seemed like a good political move to Ander Crenshaw, a Republican running for the open seat in Florida's Fourth Congressional District, which covers Jacksonville.
With the Sept. 5 party primary just a couple of weeks off, Mr. Crenshaw, a former state senator, figured running a television advertisement showing him standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ronald Reagan might give him an edge over the other primary contender, Dan Quiggle, a businessman. Mr. Crenshaw had served as co-chairman of the Reagan presidential campaigns in Florida in 1980 and 1984, so what better way to play up his Republican bona fides than to be seen with the most popular Republican of them all?
| It seemed like a good political move to Ander Crenshaw, a Republican running for the open seat in Florida's Fourth Congressional District, which covers Jacksonville. With the Sept. 5 party primary just a couple of weeks off, Mr. Crenshaw, a former state senator, figured running a television advertisement showing him standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ronald Reagan might give him an edge over the other primary contender, Dan Quiggle, a businessman. Mr. Crenshaw had served as co-chairman of the Reagan presidential campaigns in Florida in 1980 and 1984, so what better way to play up his Republican bona fides than to be seen with the most popular Republican of them all? A Quiggle supporter objected in a letter to the former president's office in Los Angeles. Was the president choosing |
1378322 | 2002 | 03 | 24 | Vanessa Leneman, Jeremy O'Friel |
Vanessa Claire Leneman, the daughter of Geraldine Leneman of New York and the late Dr. Eli-Herz Leneman, was married on Thursday to Jeremy O'Friel, a son of Caroline Roche and Dr. Seamus O'Friel, both of Dublin. The Rev. Paul Lavelle, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Holy Trinity Abbey in Adare, Ireland.
The bride, 32, is a science and homeroom teacher at the Buckley School in New York, where her mother is the director of fund-raising.
| Vanessa Claire Leneman, the daughter of Geraldine Leneman of New York and the late Dr. Eli-Herz Leneman, was married on Thursday to Jeremy O'Friel, a son of Caroline Roche and Dr. Seamus O'Friel, both of Dublin. The Rev. Paul Lavelle, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Holy Trinity Abbey in Adare, Ireland. The bride, 32, is a science and homeroom teacher at the Buckley School in New York, where her mother is the director of fund-raising. The bride graduated from Georgetown. Her father was a professor of orthopedics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. The bridegroom, 30, is a partner in Appleton Capital Management, a hedge fund in New York. He graduated from University College Dublin, where he also received a |
1342681 | 2001 | 11 | 13 | No Stranger to Loss |
At midday at La Guardia Airport's main terminal, Louis Mercado was waiting for a plane to fly home to Orlando. He had come to New York for the weekend to attend a memorial service for his son Steve Mercado, a firefighter who was among those missing from the World Trade Center disaster.
Mr. Mercado was wearing a hat with F.D.N.Y. and the numbers of his son's fire company on it. He was also wearing a Fire Department sweatshirt with a message in memory of his son, who worked for Engine 40, Ladder 35.
| At midday at La Guardia Airport's main terminal, Louis Mercado was waiting for a plane to fly home to Orlando. He had come to New York for the weekend to attend a memorial service for his son Steve Mercado, a firefighter who was among those missing from the World Trade Center disaster. Mr. Mercado was wearing a hat with F.D.N.Y. and the numbers of his son's fire company on it. He was also wearing a Fire Department sweatshirt with a message in memory of his son, who worked for Engine 40, Ladder 35. Mr. Mercado said that he and his wife, Mary, were here for six weeks just after Sept. 11, then they went home to Deltona, Fla., near Orlando. They flew back on Friday to attend the |
1762473 | 2006 | 05 | 18 | Physical Culture; Balancing Painful Swelling With a Desire to Exercise |
FOR almost 20 years, the prevailing wisdom among most doctors has been that breast cancer survivors at risk of contracting lymphedema -- a debilitating, irreversible swelling of one or both arms -- should avoid most upper-body exercise or lifting anything heavier than five pounds. For many women, the stern warnings meant they could not shop for groceries or even carry their children. Running and walking were safe, but anything that taxed the arms was considered dangerous.
Women living with lymphedema received the same advice because of the concern that stressing their upper bodies would exacerbate their swelling, pain and stiffness.
| FOR almost 20 years, the prevailing wisdom among most doctors has been that breast cancer survivors at risk of contracting lymphedema -- a debilitating, irreversible swelling of one or both arms -- should avoid most upper-body exercise or lifting anything heavier than five pounds. For many women, the stern warnings meant they could not shop for groceries or even carry their children. Running and walking were safe, but anything that taxed the arms was considered dangerous. Women living with lymphedema received the same advice because of the concern that stressing their upper bodies would exacerbate their swelling, pain and stiffness. But a study at the University of Minnesota that was released this week contradicts decades of restrictions. It found that slow, progressive weight training did not increase the |
1540999 | 2003 | 12 | 07 | This Battle of the Bands Is Peaceable |
SOON after the Arab press reported that the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington would play alongside each other at the Kennedy Center, Hisham Sharaf, the director of the Iraqi orchestra, was shot at as he drove down a highway near his home in Baghdad. A bullet penetrated his windshield, but missed him.
''I don't know who or why,'' Mr. Sharaf said recently from Baghdad. ''I think maybe it's because of the concert. On Al Jazeera, they say they are surprised that the orchestra goes to Washington at this time. We don't have political reasons. Maybe the American side thinks about that, but we go to play music, to see the American people and to show we have culture. Some people think we have only desert and camels.''
| SOON after the Arab press reported that the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington would play alongside each other at the Kennedy Center, Hisham Sharaf, the director of the Iraqi orchestra, was shot at as he drove down a highway near his home in Baghdad. A bullet penetrated his windshield, but missed him. ''I don't know who or why,'' Mr. Sharaf said recently from Baghdad. ''I think maybe it's because of the concert. On Al Jazeera, they say they are surprised that the orchestra goes to Washington at this time. We don't have political reasons. Maybe the American side thinks about that, but we go to play music, to see the American people and to show we have culture. Some people think we |
1437796 | 2002 | 11 | 04 | Wolpe Celebration Reaches the Orchestra |
Riverside Symphony Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center
After two packed weekends of chamber music, the Stefan Wolpe celebration moved into orchestral gear on Wednesday evening at the start of the Riverside Symphony's concert at Alice Tully Hall with its conductor, George Rothman.
| Riverside Symphony Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center After two packed weekends of chamber music, the Stefan Wolpe celebration moved into orchestral gear on Wednesday evening at the start of the Riverside Symphony's concert at Alice Tully Hall with its conductor, George Rothman. The program began with a world premiere: two little studies Wolpe wrote in 1933, when he was briefly in Vienna for lessons with Webern. They said a lot about his readiness to go on learning, from Webern's economy (both are built from small shapes, the second being a passacaglia on a repeated five-note motif) and from his delicate orchestration. They also said something about his life on the edge, for the first begins in midphrase, its first page having been lost in an apartment fire. Wolpe |
1575309 | 2004 | 04 | 18 | Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's Help for Our Side. |
WE'VE seen this pattern before in the computer world: many companies scrambling at the same time to solve the same problem. Sometimes the concentration of effort mainly ends up underscoring how hard it can be to solve a given problem, like controlling spam or designing laptop batteries that last as long as they should. At other times, the problem everyone is tackling yields to steady year-by-year technological progress. Disk drives and other storage devices grow ever cheaper and more reliable. Transmission speeds over modems keep going up.
But often such races result in true breakthroughs that make computers much more useful and creates countless opportunities for follow-on innovations and products. More than 20 years ago, the introduction of spreadsheets -- first VisiCalc, then Lotus 1-2-3 -- essentially created the personal computer industry by convincing businesses that PC's were tools, not gizmos. Over the last 10 years, Tim Berners-Lee, who is not getting rich, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are, have made the modern Internet possible. Mr. Berners-Lee did so by creating the technical standard for Web pages and offering it as a public utility; Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, by creating Google, which is a public service but a private company.
| WE'VE seen this pattern before in the computer world: many companies scrambling at the same time to solve the same problem. Sometimes the concentration of effort mainly ends up underscoring how hard it can be to solve a given problem, like controlling spam or designing laptop batteries that last as long as they should. At other times, the problem everyone is tackling yields to steady year-by-year technological progress. Disk drives and other storage devices grow ever cheaper and more reliable. Transmission speeds over modems keep going up. But often such races result in true breakthroughs that make computers much more useful and creates countless opportunities for follow-on innovations and products. More than 20 years ago, the introduction of spreadsheets -- first VisiCalc, then Lotus 1-2-3 -- essentially created |
1790487 | 2006 | 09 | 17 | Big Boys' Dream Job: Getting Paid to Play With Toys |
POSSESSING an appreciation for the work of Seth Green is a strong indicator not only that you might be a geek, but also what kind you are. If you habitually recite his catchphrases from the ''Austin Powers'' movies, you are most likely a comedy geek. If you admire his versatile voice-over work on the animated sitcom ''Family Guy,'' you're probably a cartoon geek. And if you fondly recall his performances as a teenage werewolf on the series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' you are one wistful fantasy geek.
At heart, Mr. Green, 32, is all these kinds of geeks (and, by the way, not nearly as cocky in person as his recent appearances on ''Entourage'' might suggest), but the obscure hobby that most clearly defines him is his passion for vintage action figures from the 1970's and 80's. He collects them, and sometimes takes them out of their packaging to play with them. He also uses them to act out comedy skits that affectionately but relentlessly undermine central tenets of pop-cultural lore, in which the superheroes of Marvel and DC Comics share a house in a parody of MTV's ''Real World'' and Harry Potter learns that his magic is powerless to stop the rampage of a monster called Pubertis.
| POSSESSING an appreciation for the work of Seth Green is a strong indicator not only that you might be a geek, but also what kind you are. If you habitually recite his catchphrases from the ''Austin Powers'' movies, you are most likely a comedy geek. If you admire his versatile voice-over work on the animated sitcom ''Family Guy,'' you're probably a cartoon geek. And if you fondly recall his performances as a teenage werewolf on the series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' you are one wistful fantasy geek. At heart, Mr. Green, 32, is all these kinds of geeks (and, by the way, not nearly as cocky in person as his recent appearances on ''Entourage'' might suggest), but the obscure hobby that most clearly defines him is his passion |
1206318 | 2000 | 06 | 11 | The Way We Live Now: 6-11-00: The Ethicist; School Ties |
I volunteered to work on a directory of local private schools because it might give our 4-year-old daughter an edge when she applies to private school next fall. A friend argued that this was wrong: most parents were denied this opportunity because they either didn't know about it or didn't have time to volunteer; in other words, it smacked of exclusion. Was she right? -- Anonymous, California
Unlike public schools, private schools make no promise of an evenhanded admissions policy but are free to enroll whomever they choose. Some favor the siblings of existing students; some favor athletes -- they'd be equally entitled to favor large tropical birds. It is not unknown for such institutions to rate the adults as much as the kids and to prefer parents who are rich or famous. Indeed, you might argue that offering an edge to parent volunteers levels the playing field for those who are not rich or famous or the mayor of a major East Coast city or the president of an important Western nation. So I'm more inclined to criticize a school for offering an unfair advantage than a parent for overreaching: getting your child into a good school can be fraught with anxiety.
| I volunteered to work on a directory of local private schools because it might give our 4-year-old daughter an edge when she applies to private school next fall. A friend argued that this was wrong: most parents were denied this opportunity because they either didn't know about it or didn't have time to volunteer; in other words, it smacked of exclusion. Was she right? -- Anonymous, California Unlike public schools, private schools make no promise of an evenhanded admissions policy but are free to enroll whomever they choose. Some favor the siblings of existing students; some favor athletes -- they'd be equally entitled to favor large tropical birds. It is not unknown for such institutions to rate the adults as much as the kids and to prefer parents |
1654849 | 2005 | 03 | 06 | If He Wanted A Stadium, There Would Be One |
IN the 1850's, when Boss Tweed was a young politician, voters in his Lower East Side district sent him to Washington as a congressman. Though surrounded by national celebrities and political figures, Tweed chafed with boredom, having, as he complained to a reporter years later, ''to spend my time in hearing a lot of snoozers discuss the tariff and the particulars of a contract to carry the mails from Paducah to Schoharie.''
He lasted just one term, then hurried back home. If an issue didn't involve New York City, he couldn't care less.
| IN the 1850's, when Boss Tweed was a young politician, voters in his Lower East Side district sent him to Washington as a congressman. Though surrounded by national celebrities and political figures, Tweed chafed with boredom, having, as he complained to a reporter years later, ''to spend my time in hearing a lot of snoozers discuss the tariff and the particulars of a contract to carry the mails from Paducah to Schoharie.'' He lasted just one term, then hurried back home. If an issue didn't involve New York City, he couldn't care less. Tweed's bold, brassy style, his penetrating intelligence and his genial personality helped him capture the imagination of his fellow New Yorkers and made him a perfect politician -- arguably, though contrary to conventional wisdom, one |
1693129 | 2005 | 08 | 07 | Police Seek Ex-Boyfriend In Slaying |
A man shot his estranged girlfriend to death early yesterday morning in a Bronx deli, the police said, ending months during which, the woman's relatives say, he stalked her and begged her repeatedly to take him back.
The deli owner said that after the man, Juan Ramos, 46, shot the woman, Marilyn Rodriguez, twice, Mr. Ramos stood over her body and said in Spanish: ''Now, it's finished.''
| A man shot his estranged girlfriend to death early yesterday morning in a Bronx deli, the police said, ending months during which, the woman's relatives say, he stalked her and begged her repeatedly to take him back. The deli owner said that after the man, Juan Ramos, 46, shot the woman, Marilyn Rodriguez, twice, Mr. Ramos stood over her body and said in Spanish: ''Now, it's finished.'' Ms. Rodriguez, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene, the police said, and last night, there had been no arrests. They said they were seeking Mr. Ramos in connection with the crime. Investigators said Ms. Rodriguez was shot twice in her neck at 12:30 a.m. Yesterday, on a corner near Ms. Rodriguez's home on Washington Avenue in the Tremont section of |
1354104 | 2001 | 12 | 24 | Placing a Value on a Priceless Life |
To the Editor:
Re ''Victims' Fund Likely to Pay Average of $1.6 Million Each'' (front page, Dec. 21):
Everyone seems to be missing the flaw that will diminish the impact of the awards given.
| To the Editor: Re ''Victims' Fund Likely to Pay Average of $1.6 Million Each'' (front page, Dec. 21): Everyone seems to be missing the flaw that will diminish the impact of the awards given. Under the guidelines, for example, the widow of a 25-year-old man earning $25,000 a year with two children will be awarded more than $1.1 million. Given the circumstances of her life, it is likely that she will be unable to manage that money in a way that protects her and her children for their lifetimes. Will the idea that she is now a ''millionaire'' cause her to believe that she can afford all of life's pleasures, only to find that she has run out of money after a few years? Or will she do |
1532336 | 2003 | 11 | 02 | Paid Notice: Deaths DWORKIN, WILLIAM |
DWORKIN--William. October 29, 2003 in New York. He would have been 76 November 9th. He was long active in marketing books on art and architecture, notably at Harry N. Abrams, and then at Rizzoli where he was Vice President for Sales and Associate Editor. He gravitated to publishing out of his love of books. Born in Newark, NJ, he attended Rutgers, Colorado and the University of Chicago. He was an omnivorous reader with a passion for the beautiful and humanizing in the arts, especially classical music. An avid collector of recordings, he was as devoted to film history, having spent his youth in the flickering dark. Secular to his fingertips, he led for over 25 years a Yiddish reading group with wry humor and quiet authority. Dignified, modest, charming of deep feeling and integrity, he is mourned by many friends, his darling cousin Lillian Loewenthal, her husband Leo, and sons Danny and Eben, his nephew David Stamboulis and the family of Eugene Roth, his companion of 33 years who survives him sore at heart. A memorial will be held in December.
| DWORKIN--William. October 29, 2003 in New York. He would have been 76 November 9th. He was long active in marketing books on art and architecture, notably at Harry N. Abrams, and then at Rizzoli where he was Vice President for Sales and Associate Editor. He gravitated to publishing out of his love of books. Born in Newark, NJ, he attended Rutgers, Colorado and the University of Chicago. He was an omnivorous reader with a passion for the beautiful and humanizing in the arts, especially classical music. An avid collector of recordings, he was as devoted to film history, having spent his youth in the flickering dark. Secular to his fingertips, he led for over 25 years a Yiddish reading group with wry humor and quiet authority. Dignified, modest, |
1843378 | 2007 | 04 | 28 | Halberstam's Legacy |
To the Editor:
Re ''A Skeptical Vietnam Voice Still Echoes in the Fog of Iraq,'' by Dexter Filkins (An Appraisal, April 25):
| To the Editor: Re ''A Skeptical Vietnam Voice Still Echoes in the Fog of Iraq,'' by Dexter Filkins (An Appraisal, April 25): Mr. Filkins was right to thank David Halberstam for helping us to have a clearer picture of the Iraq war. It was through the courageous reporting of Mr. Halberstam and his colleagues -- many of whom later became reporters for The New York Times -- that this country learned the truth about the Vietnam War. His example has clearly inspired Mr. Filkins and others to search for the truth about the conflict in Iraq. While laudable, this is never a popular stance to take with governments that promote war, or an easy choice to make for someone who loves his country. As Mr. Halberstam pointed out |
1240494 | 2000 | 10 | 21 | McCain Joins Bush, Calling Him 'Fully Prepared' |
Gov. George W. Bush and Senator John McCain stumped side by side today, with the senator declaring at a rollicking airport rally that the governor was ''fully prepared'' to lead. But once again things did not go quite as planned between the two former primary rivals.
The high point of the campaign day was supposed to be a unity rally in New Hampshire, victor and vanquished together, with Mr. McCain appealing to independents and swing voters in the state where he defeated Mr. Bush in the primary and forced him to fight for his nomination.
| Gov. George W. Bush and Senator John McCain stumped side by side today, with the senator declaring at a rollicking airport rally that the governor was ''fully prepared'' to lead. But once again things did not go quite as planned between the two former primary rivals. The high point of the campaign day was supposed to be a unity rally in New Hampshire, victor and vanquished together, with Mr. McCain appealing to independents and swing voters in the state where he defeated Mr. Bush in the primary and forced him to fight for his nomination. But Mr. McCain missed the rally. His aides blamed food poisoning from a catfish and shrimp dinner in Mississippi the night before. When Mr. McCain finally caught up with the Bush campaign in |
1396583 | 2002 | 05 | 31 | Dazzling Designs On Silk Textiles |
We may think of weaving as women's work, but in 19th-century Central Asia it was almost always the men who wove ikats, the wildly colorful patterned silk textiles used to make precious robes and hangings.
But you don't need to know ikats' complicated history to appreciate an exhibition organized by the Gail Martin Gallery on the Upper West Side. It coincides with Sofa New York 2002, the fifth annual show of sculpture, objects and functional art, most of it contemporary, at the Seventh Regiment Armory through Monday (Review, Page 39).
| We may think of weaving as women's work, but in 19th-century Central Asia it was almost always the men who wove ikats, the wildly colorful patterned silk textiles used to make precious robes and hangings. But you don't need to know ikats' complicated history to appreciate an exhibition organized by the Gail Martin Gallery on the Upper West Side. It coincides with Sofa New York 2002, the fifth annual show of sculpture, objects and functional art, most of it contemporary, at the Seventh Regiment Armory through Monday (Review, Page 39). Gail Martin is one of a handful of experts on antique Central Asian textiles. In the 1970's she traveled to Afghanistan to buy kilims, ikats and Lakai embroideries from Uzbek merchants who had settled in the north of |
1238431 | 2000 | 10 | 13 | Giuliani Says He Would Consider Abolishing Term Limits for City Council |
Quiet attempts by the New York City Council to overturn part of a 1993 law on term limits appeared to gain momentum yesterday when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said he might support such a measure. Under the law, 36 of the Council's 51 members would have to leave office on Dec. 31, 2001.
''I am concerned about the fact that there will be a total and absolute turnover of city government, just about, in one day,'' the mayor said at a news conference when asked whether he would approve legislation to end term limits for Council members. ''I haven't made up my mind, but I would certainly consider some way to ameliorate that instant turnover.''
| Quiet attempts by the New York City Council to overturn part of a 1993 law on term limits appeared to gain momentum yesterday when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said he might support such a measure. Under the law, 36 of the Council's 51 members would have to leave office on Dec. 31, 2001. ''I am concerned about the fact that there will be a total and absolute turnover of city government, just about, in one day,'' the mayor said at a news conference when asked whether he would approve legislation to end term limits for Council members. ''I haven't made up my mind, but I would certainly consider some way to ameliorate that instant turnover.'' Mr. Giuliani's comment followed reports, most recently in an article yesterday in Newsday, |
1437572 | 2002 | 11 | 03 | Plenty of Verbal Jabs and Punches in Final Senate Debate |
New Jersey's two main candidates for United States Senate met last night for their only broadcast television debate, and their 60-minute discussion was packed with enough combative exchanges and impromptu jibes to fuel an entire campaign.
Douglas R. Forrester, the Republican, pounded away at the voting record that Democrat Frank R. Lautenberg compiled as a United States senator from 1983 to 2001, blaming Mr. Lautenberg for higher taxes, an under-funded military and weakened intelligence-gathering services. He also said that Mr. Lautenberg shared responsibility for the fact that New Jersey sends more in taxes to Washington than it receives in federal aid.
| New Jersey's two main candidates for United States Senate met last night for their only broadcast television debate, and their 60-minute discussion was packed with enough combative exchanges and impromptu jibes to fuel an entire campaign. Douglas R. Forrester, the Republican, pounded away at the voting record that Democrat Frank R. Lautenberg compiled as a United States senator from 1983 to 2001, blaming Mr. Lautenberg for higher taxes, an under-funded military and weakened intelligence-gathering services. He also said that Mr. Lautenberg shared responsibility for the fact that New Jersey sends more in taxes to Washington than it receives in federal aid. ''We are last, New Jersey is always last,'' Mr. Forrester said. ''I provide a better vision for moving New Jersey out of last place.'' But Mr. Lautenberg, |